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POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS.
When the terminal office is a branch or sub-ofSce, and that otEce is closed, exemption
from porterage is allowed for one mile only if the telegram is delivered from the Head
Office, even though the address of the telegram be within the limits of the town postal
delivery.
When the address is beyond the free delivery, porterage is charged at the rate of 6d.
per mile or part of a mile, provided the whole distance does not exceed three miles; but
the charge is calculated from the boimdary within which no porterage is levied. For
instance, if the address is a mile and a quarter from the terminal office, and also beyond
the town postal delivery, the charge for porterage would be 6d. ; if the distance is above
two miles and under three, Is. ; when the address is more than three miles from the terminal
office the telegram is delivered by mounted messenger at the rate of Is. per mile or part
thereof, the charged being reckoned from the office door.
Telegrams may be sent by post or by train from the terminal office. If this be desired
the sender must write the words "by post" or "by train " at the end of the address (these
words being charged for), and in the latter case he must pay the cost or deposit Is. if the
exact cost is not known.
The sum paid by the sender for delivery is intimated to the terminal telegraph office ;
and should the sender, who is responsible for the porterage, have undercalculated the
distance over which the message has to be carried by special foot or mounted messenger,
the deficiency will be charged on delivery.
In tendering messages for transmission, the senders are expected to state, as accurately
as possible, the distance at which the addressees live from the terminal telegraph office, so
tliat the charge for porterage may be ascertained. The Directory has been compiled with a
"Special view to supply this information, although it is not to be considered as an official
authority for deciding cases of disputed distance. The distances have in every instance been
given, as far as it has been possible to ascertain them, to the nearest quarter of a mile ; but as
the fractional part of a mile counts as a full mile for porterage purposes, any discrepancy
which does not involve the question of a ivliole additional mile (over the first) does not affect
the cost of delivery. For instance, the charge (viz. 6d.) for delivering at a place which is
only 1| mile from a telegraph office, while the entry in the Directory makes it If or 2 miles,
will be the same as if the exact distance had been stated.
The Post Office is not liable for losses incurred through the incorrect transmission,
delay, or non-delivery of Telegrams, but every such case will be carefully investigated on
the particulars being communicated to the Surveyor- General at the Metropolitan Office ;
and it will materially assist the Department in such inquiries if (in instances of incorrect
transmission or delay) the applicant will enclose the Received Message form in his letter.
A B B R E V lA T I O N S.
Est. C, .
. Established Church.
M.O.O., .
F.C., .
. Free Church.
S.O.,
U.P.C, .
, United Presbyterian Church.
R.O., .
Ref. Pres.,
. Reformed Presbyterian.
R.S.O., .
U.O.S., .
. United Original Seceders.
T.O.,
Cong., .
. Congregationalists.
N. B. Rwy., .
E.U., .
. Evangelical Union.
Cal. Rwv., .
Bapt., .
. Baptist.
G.N.of S";Rwy.,
Episcop.,
. Episcopal.
R.C., .
. Roman Catholic.
G.&S.-W.Rwy
Not.-Pub.,
. Notary-Public.
Med. Prac,
. Medical Practitioner.
Money Order Office.
Sub- Office.
Receiving Office.
Railway Sub-Office.
Telegraph Office.
Xorth British Railway.
Caledonian Railway.
Great North of Scotland
Railway.
., Glasgow & South- Western
Railway.
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