Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-30

shortest and most direct line between
the Office where any such message may
may be received and the Office to which
the same is to be sent.
SEC. 2. No person, company or cor
portion shall demand, charge or receive
any fee or.compensation, in addition to
the rates fixed IN this act for transmit
ting the same, for delivering any mes
sage received and transmitted at any
place within two miles of the Office to
which the same was sent for delivery.
And no person, company or corpora
ton shall charge or receive more than
ten cents per mile each way for each
mile actually and necessarily Travelled
in excess of the first two miles from the
Office where the same was received
from the wire, in delivering any such
| telegraphic message, and fifty cents
additional for the delivery thereof
when delivered more than two miles
from such office.
SEC. 3. Every person, company or
corporation engaged IN the business of
transmitting telegraghic messages for
the general public within this state
| shall, upon the payment or tender of
the rates chargeable under this act, re-
ceive, transmit and deliver any mes
sage offered or rendered for transmits
sion to any point along the line or lines
owned or operated by such person, com
panY or corporation, without delay.
And when TWO or more connecting tel
egraph lines are operated 10y different
persons, companies, corporations, any
message rendered TO the person, com
pany or corporation operating either of
said connecting lines, shall, upon pay
ment or tender Of the legal charges I'M
der this act for transmitting the same,
be received and transmitted to the pro-
per Office Of the first connecting line,
without delay; and each of the connect
ing lines over which the same must
be transmitted shall receive such
line and transmit the same to the next
connecting line in regular order, With
out delay, until the same shall have
reached the place of its final destina-
ton to be delivered.
SEC. When any message shall be
transmitted over more than one line,
the charges cOllectible under this act
for transmitting the same shall be di
vided equally between the operators of
the several lines over which such mes
sage is transmitted and paid to the sew
eral connecting lines, unless otherwise
agreed between the operators of said
several connecting lines.
SEC. 5. No person, company or cor
poration engaged the business of receiv
ing and transmitting Geographic mess
ages for the general public shall, either
directly or indirectly, furnish or divulge
TO any person other than the one to
whom the same was sent the contents
Of any message so received and trans
United, unless the person to whom the
same shall have been divulged was duly
authorized by the person to whom the
same was sent to receive such message
or the contents thereof. And no such
person, company or corporation shall
give any special or lower rates to any
person, firm, company or corporation
not given to all other persons For the
same or like service.
SECTION 6. Any person, company OF
corporation engaged in the business of
receiving and transmitting telegraphic
messages within this state refusing
failing or neglectlng to receive, (either
from the person sending the same or
any connecting line) transmit, and de-
liver, without unnecessary delay. any
message offered for transmission, after
the legal charges under this act for
transmission and delivery have been
paid or rendered, or refusing, failing or
neglecting to transmit and deliver,
without unnecessary delay, any mes
sage received for transmission and de-
livery, either from the person sending
the same or any connecting line, shall
| forfeit and be liable to the person send
ing or trying to send such message and
| to the person TO whom the same was
sent, i'll the sum of one hundred dollars
each, as damages, TO be recovered in a
civil action by each of SAID parties in
any court of competent jurisdiction, to-
gether with reasonable attorneys fee
| in each court into winch said action
may be taken, by appeal or otherwise
This section shall not in any wav af-
feet the right of such persons to recov-
er actual damages for failure to send OF
deliver such message. in addition tC
the forfeiture herein provided for.
SECTION 7. Any person, company
or corporation, or any agent, servant OF
employe of any person, company, OF
corporation, violating any of the pro
visions of this act, shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor, and, upon
conviction, be punished by fine of not
less than fifty nor more than five hun.
dred dollars, and Imprisonment in the
county Jail not less than thirty days
nor more than one year.
SECTION s. This act shall take eff
feet and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
WILLIAM WATnORF A S,rOR dra VIC