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Form No. 4.
THE AMERICAN TELEGRAPH CO.
SOUTHERN DISTRICT,
Under Control and Supervision of United States Military Telegraph,
CONNECTING ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN THE UNITED STATES.

Terms and Conditions on which this and all Messages are received by the Company.
In order to guard against and correct as much as possible some of the error arising from atmospheric and other causes appertaining to telegraphy, every important message should be REPEATED, by being sent back from the station at which it is to be received  to the station from which it is originally sent. Half the usual price will be charged for repeating this message, and while this Company in good faith will endeavor to send messages correctly and promptly, it will not be responsible for error or delays in the transmission or delivery, nor for the non-delivery of REPEATED MESSAGES, beyond TWO HUNDRED times the sum paid for sending messages, unless a special agreement for insurance be made in writing, and the amount of risk specified on the agreement , and paid for at the time of sending the message. Nor will the Company be responsible for any error or delay in the transmission or delivery, or for the non-delivery, of ANY UNREPEATED MESSAGE, beyond the amount paid for at the time No Liability is assumed for errors in cipher or obscure messages; nor is any liability assumed by this Company for any error or neglect by any other Company over whose lines this message may be sent to reach its destination, and this Company is hereby made the gent of the sender of this message to any other or verbal agreement, nor any promise as to the time of performance, and no one but a superintendent is authorized to make special agreement for insurance. These terms apply through the whole course of this message on all lines by which it may be transmitted.
CAMBRIDGE LIVINGSTON, Sec'y. MARSHALL LEFFERTS, Eng. E.S. SANFORD, Pres't.   

Dated New Kent CH 12 1865.
Received at
To Capt C B Wilder
AQM & Supt &c
Ft Monroe Va.

Capt  I am informed that a freedman is held in custody at Richmond charged with committing rape on a white girl and is to be tried at this place by the Civil Court next Thursday. Please inform me what I shall