GENERAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 112. Washington, August 22, 1901. By direction of the Secretary of War, the following order of the Honorable the Postmaster General, publishing rates of pay for communications by telegraph, is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES: 3-1152 THOMAS WARD, Acting Adjutant General. RATES OF PAY FOR COMMUNICATIONS BY TELEGRAPH. ORDER NO. 852. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., June 29, 1901. Pursuant to the authority vested in the Postmaster General by the Act of Congress 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, 1901, and terminating June 30, 1902, 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, less than one-half, is to be disregarded; if one half 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, 1901, 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. 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. CH. EMORY SMITH, 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. Received and filed July 30, 1866. 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. 1867. 10. Northwestern Telegraph Company of Kenosha, Wis. 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 June 8, Received and filed June 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 Re 15. The Atlantic and Pacific States Telegraph Company of Sacramento, Cal. ceived 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. 18. Cape May and Shore Telegraph Company of New York City. Received and filed April 2, 1869. 19. Peninsula Telegraph Company of New York City. Received and filed May 9, 1869. 20. Ocean Telegraph Company of Boston, Mass. 21. The American Cable Company of New York. 1870. Received and filed July 15, 1869. 22. Southern and Atlantic Telegraph Company of Philadelphia, Pa. Received and filed July 22, 1870. 23. International Ocean Telegraph Company of New York City. Received and filed January 20, 1871. 24. Missouri River Telegraph Company of Sioux City, Iowa. Received and filed May 3, 1871. 25. The Marine and Inland Telegraph Company of New Jersey, 715 Locust street, Philadelphia, Pa. Received and filed November 27, 1872. 26. Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company of Missouri. Executive Office, 145 Broadway, New York City. Received and filed May 8, 1877. 27. New Jersey and New England Telegraph Company. Received and filed November 21, 1878. Address A. L. Worthington, No. 10 Green street, Trenton, N. J. 28. The American Rapid Telegraph Company, 41 Wall street, New York. Received and filed April 12, 1879. Special rates received and filed April 1, 1881. 29. Central Union Telegraph Company, 145 Broadway, New York. Received and filed May 9, 1879. 30. New York Land and Ocean Telegraph Company. Received and filed May 10, 1879. 31. Deseret Telegraph Company, Salt Lake City, Utah. 19, 1879. Received and filed May 32. American Union Telegraph Company of New York, 145 Broadway, New York. Received and filed July 1, 1879. 33. The American Union Telegraph Company of Missouri, Chas. S. Greeley, president, St. Louis, Mo. Received and filed July 9, 1879. 34. Wabash Railway Company, Cyrus W. Field, president, New York. Received and filed July 11, 1879. 35. The American Union Telegraph Company of New Jersey, D. II. Bates, president, Jersey City, N. J. Received and filed July 17, 1879. 36. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company of Maryland, John W. Garrett, president, Baltimore, Md. Received and filed July 18, 1879. 37. The American Union Telegraph Company of Baltimore City, Md. Received and filed July 31, 1879. 38. The Deer Lodge Telegraph Company of Butte City, Mont. Received and filed August 30, 1879. 39. The American Union Telegraph Company of Pennsylvania, D. H. Bates, president, Philadelphia. Received and filed September 4, 1879. 40. The American Union Telegraph Company of Indiana, Lafayette, Ind. Received and filed September 12, 1879. 41. The Cheyenne and Black Hills Telegraph Company, W. H. Hibbard, superintendent, Cheyenne, Wyo. Received and filed November 7, 1879. 42. The American Union Telegraph Company of Ohio, Frank B. Swayne, president, Toledo, Ohio. Received and filed November 8, 1879. 43. The American Union Telegraph Company of Louisiana, Ed. Leloup, secretary, New Orleans, La. Received and filed March 1, 1880. 44. Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company of Ohio, Geo. Hoadley, president, Cincinnati, Ohio. Received and filed September 3, 1880. 45. The Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway Company of St. Louis, Mo., Solon Humphreys, president, No. 80 Broadway, New York. Received and filed September 13, 1880. 46. Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company of Illinois, C. H. Hudson, president, No. 81 South Clark street, Chicago, Ill. Received and filed September 23, 1880. 47. Frontier Telegraph Company of Texas, G. O. Appleby, president, Lampasas, Tex. Received and filed October 25, 1880. 48. Bankers and Merchants' Telegraph Company of New Jersey, J. Heron Crosman, president, No. 58 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Received and filed April 21, 1881. 49. Bankers and Merchants' Telegraph Company of New York, Wm. W. Maris, president, No. 58 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Received and filed June 8, 1881. 50. Mutual Union Telegraph Company of Illinois, Carroll Sprigg, secretary, Chicago, Ill. Received and filed October 24, 1881. 51. Mutual Union Telegraph Company of Missouri, Carroll Sprigg, secretary, Chicago, Ill. Received and filed November 14, 1881. 52. New Jersey Mutual Telegraph Company, Jno. H. Walker, secretary, Newark, N. J. Received and filed November 17, 1881. 53. Bankers and Merchants' Telegraph Company, Wm. W. Maris, president, 58 Broadway, New York. Received and filed December 8, 1881. 54. The Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company, Welty McCullogh, secretary, Pittsburg, Pa. Received and filed March 6, 1882. 55. East Tennessee Telephone Company, D. I. Carson, secretary, New York, Received and filed May 31, 1882. 56. Southern Telegraph Company, James F. Cox, president, 48 Exchange Place, New York. Received and filed August 4, 1882. 57. Postal Telegraph Company, A. W. Beard, president, 2 Wall street, New York. Received and filed August 31, 1882. 58. Bankers and Merchants' Telegraph Company of Baltimore City, J. G. Chase, secretary, 58 Broadway, New York. Received and filed December 14, 1882. 59. Mutual Union Telegraph Company of New York, John G. Moore, president, New York, N. Y. Received and filed March 5, 1883. GO. The Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company in Pennsylvania, J. B. Washington, secretary, Pittsburg, Pa. Received and filed March 17, 1883. 61. The Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company of Indiana, Geo. P. Frick, president; Dan'l T. Downey, secretary, Baltimore, Md. Received and filed July 17, 1883. 62. The Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company of the State of New York, Geo. P. Frick, president; Edward R. Golliday, secretary, Baltimore, Md. Received and filed July 17, 1883. 63. The Northern and Southern Telegraph Company, corner State and Bridge streets, New York City, John F. Davis, president; Wm. H. Harfield, secretary. Received and filed September 28, 1883. 64. Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company of New Jersey, Geo. P. Frick, president; Edward R. Golliday, secretary, Trenton, N. J. Received and filed November 7, 1883. |