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772 RECEIVING AND TRANSMITTING DISPATCHES.
other, or on local lines in other cities, is one franc. From and to places
not over twenty kilometers from Paris. one franc and fifty centimes.
16. The charge for each additional series of five words, or a fraction
thereof, over the fifteen words, is to be charged at an increase of ten per
cent.
17. No charge for delivery of dispatches.
18. Every fraction of a myriameter is counted as a whole. The distance is taken on an air line on the map.
19. The following are the rules for counting words, viz.: 1st. Compound
nouns, formed of separate words in the dictionary of the French Academy, such as chief-director, station-master, &c. 2d. Geographical and
family names formed of several words, not including in the latter title and
Christian names. Each word or name in a business firm is chargeable.
3d. Name of a street is charged as one word, the locality described is one
word. This rule applies only in the address. Numbers written in full,
count as many words as are used to express them. In counting figures
five make a word, and the fraction additional counts as a full word. A
comma, or a bar of division counts as a figure, thus 327,50 count as two
words, 3,2-1 two words, the - being counted as three and the comma as
one figure; 4,32A count as two words; and 33:50, are counted as six figures or two words, there being four figures and two points additinoal.
20. Points of punctuation in the common language and orthography
are not chargeable. Parenthesis, italization, and quotation-marks, are
counted two words for each. Letters separated or in groups are regarded
each as a word. All signs and marks are counted as many words
as are required to express them respectively; thus, A in a dia- A
mond, counts as four words.
21. Messages for several stations are to be charged as follows: If the
dispatch is to be sent from station A to B and C, the tariff charged at A
will be for the transmission from A to B, and then the tariff from B to C
is to be charged on the message to be dropped at C, and in like manner to
any number of stations desired.
22. When a dispatch is addressed to several persons in the same town
the charge for transmission is to be on one dispatch only, but on every
duplicate delivered to other persons, the cost of delivery will be charged
and for the copying a charge of fifty centimes will be required for each.
23. Any one wishing a copy of a dispatch either sent or received by the
person, a charge of fifty centimes will be required for copying it, and for
which a receipt will be given by the officer of the station.
24. Any one wishing information of the time of the delivery of a dispatch transmitted by such person, or the time of its reception at the
destination office, a charge will be made, equal to one fourth the price
of a dispatch to said place. For this payment a receipt will be given.
25. For having a message repeated back to the sender, full tariff will
be charged, as though it was a new dispatch.
26. The charge on dispatches sent in the night will be double the usual
tariff for the day business. The night hours are from 9 p. M. to 8 A. M.,
during the winter months, and from 9 P. M. to 7 A. M., during the remainder of the year.
27. Answers paid for in advance, are to be charged at the rate of a
single dispatch, but if the answer should exceed the payment made, it cannot be delivered until fully paid. If no answer be sent, the money will
be returned.
28. When anyone to whom a message is sent does not live in the locality of the destination office, the sender must indicate the mode of its delivery, for which the following charges shall be made, viz.: For delivery
at post-office half franc, plus forty centimes for postal registration; for