GENERAL ORDERS, No. 54. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, August 27, 1897. The following orders are published for the information and guidance of all concerned: WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, August 21, 1897. By authority of the President of the United States dated August 21, 1897, the following-described lands in the State of Florida are hereby reserved and set apart for the future military and naval defense of Pensacola harbor, Florida, and proclaimed military reservations, viz: 1. Lot 2 of section 4, and lots 1 and 2 of section 9, in township 3 south, range 29 west, Florida, containing in the aggregate 267.25 acres more or less. 2. Fractional section 1 of township 3 south, range 30 west, Florida, containing 3.14 acres more or less. G. D. MEIKLEJOHN, BY ORDER OF THE ACTING SECRETARY OF WAR: SAM'L BRECK, Acting Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPARTMENT, No. 55. Washington, Sept. 17, 1897. The accompanying order of the Postmaster General, fixing the rates of charges for telegraphic communications for the current fiscal year, is published for the information of the Army. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: SAM'L BRECK, Adjutant General. ORDER No. 463. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., July 28, 1897. Pursuant to the authority vested in the Postmaster General by the Act of Con gress entitled "An Act to aid in the construction of telegraph lines, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes," approved July 24, 1866, and by the Revised Statutes of the United States, Title LXV, I hereby fix the rates at which such communications as the said Statutes prescribe (not including those passing over circuits established by the Chief of the Weather Bureau, Department of Agriculture) shall be sent during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1897, and terminating June 30, 1898, by the several companies within the effect of said statutes, as follows: For day messages containing not more than twenty (20) words, exclusive of place from and date, twenty (20) cents, not exceeding one thousand (1,000) miles, and one cent for each additional word. One quarter of this rate to be added for each five hundred (500) miles, or fraction thereof, but no rate on a message of twenty (20) words to be more than forty (40) cents, nor on an additional word more than two (2) cents. The rate between all points in any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia shall be twenty (20) cents for twenty (20) words, and one cent for each additional word. In cases where the price of a message, determined as herein provided, shall include a fraction of a cent, such fraction, if less than one-half, is to be disregarded; if onehalf or more, it is to be counted as one cent. For night messages not exceeding twenty (20) words, exclusive of place from and date, fifteen (15) cents for any distance within two thousand (2,000) miles, and for greater distances twenty-five (25) cents; in each case one cent for each additional word. Instead of computing the actual distances of transmission, the distance for payment shall in all cases be taken absolutely to be the number of miles between the capital of the State or Territory, or from the city of Washington, if from within the District of Columbia, from within which (whatever the place) the message is sent, and the capital of the State or Territory, or the city of Washington, if within the District of Columbia, within which (whatever the place) the message is received, as shown in the accompanying table, wherein such distances are given as computed upon the shortest practicable route between such capitals, and which is to be taken as part of this order. But it is provided that if, on the 1st day of July, 1897, or at any time during the ensuing year, any such company shall charge the public for a message of ten words or less, exclusive of the date, address, and signature, a less rate than is herein fixed for twenty words, exclusive of place from and date, the rates here prescribed shall, as to such company, thenceforth during the year be reduced to the rates so charged to the public. (2) The statutes provide that telegrams between the several Departments of the Government and their officers and agents, in their transmission over the lines of any such company, shall have priority over all other business. All officers of the United States sending such telegrams should indorse thereon the words "Official Business," and should report to the Postmaster General any failure to transmit them in such priority, and any charge made in excess of the rates above prescribed. Each company will be allowed to charge for messages received from another line at the same rate as if received from the Government direct, at the point of transfer for transmission over its own line. JAS. A. GARY, Telegraph Companies which have accepted the conditions of the Act of July 24, 1866, and which are subject to the provisions of the order of the Postmaster General fixing Government Rates. The following is a list of telegraph companies that have filed acceptance of the provisions of the Act of July 24, 1866, up to the present date: 1. The American Submarine Telegraph Company of New York, N. Y. Received and filed July 24, 1866. 2. The National Telegraph Company of New York, N. Y. 30, 1866. Received and filed July 3. The Globe Insulated Lines Telegraph Company of New York, N. Y. Received and filed July 31, 1866. 4. International Telegraph Company of Portland, Me. Received and filed October 6, 1866. 5. The Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company of New York, N. Y. Received and filed March 19, 1867. 6. The Franco-American Land and Ocean Telegraph Company of New York, N. Y. Received and filed April 6, 1867. 7. The Globe Telegraph Company of New York. Received and filed May 30, 1867. 8. Mississippi Valley National Telegraph Company of St. Louis, Mo. Received and filed June 4, 1867. 9. Western Union Telegraph Company of New York. Received and filed June 8, 1867. 10. Northwestern Telegraph Company of Kenosha, Wis. Received and filed July 30, 1867. 11. Great Western Telegraph Company of New York. 17, 1868. 12. The Franklin Telegraph Company of Boston, Mass. 17, 1868. Received and filed January Received and filed April 13. The Insulated Lines Telegraph Company of Boston, Mass. April 13, 1868. 14. Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Company of Pittsburg, Pa. July 22, 1868. Received and filed Received and filed 15. The Atlantic and Pacific States Telegraph Company of Sacramento, Cal. Received and filed September 7, 1868. 16. The Eastern Telegraph Company of Philadelphia, Pa. Received and filed October 5, 1868. 17. The Delaware River Telegraph Company of Philadelphia, Pa. Received and filed October 23, 1868. |