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Blank No. 1. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
The rules of this Company require that all messages received for transmission, shall be written on the message blanks of the Company, under and subject to the conditions printed thereon, which conditions have been agreed to by the sender of the following message. O.H. PALMER, Sec'y  DH  J.H. WADE, Pres't
Dated, Norfolk Aug 15 1867
Received at Richmond Aug 15
To Genl O Brown Asst Com

What shall be done with the inmates of the Old Floks home on the wise farms & the Hospitals in this city - the commissary here refuses to issue rations to them under the late order of Genl Schofield after the 20th Inst.
J.H>Remington Bvt Maj &c
45 DH Gov't