This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions, limiting its liability, which
have been assented to by the sender of the following message.
Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and
the Company will not hold itself liable for errors and delays in transmission or delivery of UNREPEATED
MESSAGES beyond amount received for sending the same.
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THE DESERET TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions, limiting its liability, which
have been assented to by the sender of the following message.
Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and
the Company will not hold itself liable for errors and delays in transmission or delivery of UNREPEATED
MESSAGES beyond amount received for sending the same.
"Telegram from John Daniel Thompson McAllister, 19 February 1882," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed March 29, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/6zPR