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Add to My CitationsTo George Griffin
per Telegraph Operator
11 September 1880 • Elmira, N.Y.
(MS, copy received: CtHMTH, UCCL 01830)
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the american union telegraph company is not to be liable for damages arising from any failure to transmit or deliver, or from any error in the transmission or delivery of, an unrepeated telegram, beyond the amount received for sending the same. but, to guard against errors, the company will repeat back any telegram, for an extra payment of one-half the regular rate, and in that case it is not to be liable for damages, beyond fifty times the amount received for sending and repeating the telegram.

the american union telegraph company is not to be liable in any case for damages, unless the same be claimed, in writing, within sixty days after the receipt of the telegram for transmission. and this company is not to be liable for the act or omission of any other company, but it will endeavor to forward this telegram over the lines of any other telegraph company, necessary to reaching its destination, but only as the agent of the sender and without liability therefor.

the american union telegraph company

lessee of the dominion telegraph co. of canada, and connecting

with the french atlantic cable.


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datedem space Elmira NY 11 em spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem space1880, upon the above conditions:

toem space Geo Griffin

With S L Clemens

Show this telegram to Mr Perkins & get twenty dollars

S L Clemens

[form 10.]



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