M. O. H. Norton to Beriah Magoffin

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Accession Number

KYR-0001-019-0023

Document Genre

Repository

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Collection

Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Military Correspondence, 1859-1862

Item Location

MG5-68

Place of Creation

New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana

Date of Creation

1861

Dates Mentioned

1861

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

No. 1.] TERMS AND CONDITIONS ON WHICH MESSAGES ARE RECEIVED BY THIS COMPANY FOR TRANSMISSION.

The public are notified that, in order to guard against mistakes in the transmission of messages, every message of importance ought to 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 for transmission will be charged for repeating the message; and while this Company will, as heretofore, use every precaution to ensure correctness, it will not be responsible for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery of repeated messages, beyond an amount exceeding five hundred times the amount paid for sending the message; nor will it be responsible for mistakes or delays in the transmission of unrepeated messages from whatever cause they may arise, nor for delays arising from interruptions in the working of its Telegraphs, nor for any mistake or omission of any other Company, over whose lines a message is to be sent to reach the place of destination. All messages will hereafter be received by this Company for transmission, subject to the above conditions.

A. STAGER, Gen. Sup't, Cleveland, O.

I. R. ELWOOD, Sec'y, Rochester, N. Y.

Forwarded from Louisville18601.
To Gov Magoffin
By Telegraph from New Orleans30 18601.

Telegraph of this date rec^d fifteen hundred (1500) Guns Shipped to Hunt costing about fourteen thousand (14000) Dollars & I will forward today to Hunt fifteen (15) Dollars worth pErcussion Caps no more guns & no powder here, Shall I order from Cuba. Blackburn cant be found. I shall draw on you on favor agent of Bank Kentucky.

M. O. H. MNorton
Rec^d the above & answered as follows,

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