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RUSSIAN TELEGRAPHS-GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS. 779
laws, or incompatible with the public good, or containing objectionable language, cannot be transmitted. All such dispatches are strictly forbidden to be sent, and it is the duty of
the officer of the station to transmit them forthwith to the minister of communications. Payment for them is to be refused.
Should it happen that the dispatch be forwarded through inadvertence, it is the duty of any other station officer to stop its
delivery, and to transmit it to the minister of communications.
The money is to be forfeited to the government, if the dispatch
is found objectionable. When a dispatch, as above described, is
received from a foreign country, it is not to be delivered; but
it must be sent to the minister of communications, and notice
of that fact must be sent to the stations from which the dispatch originated.
12th. Any one aggrieved by any act of the telegraph, may
address the minister of communications.
13th. Government dispatches and messages between imperial and royal families are unlimited. Private dispatches cannot exceed 100 words, unless the line is unemployed with other
business. One person cannot send but one dispatch until the
line has sent all others offered. Duplicate dispatches can be
delivered in the same town by the payment of 20 copecks (15
cents), for each duplicate delivered. For copies sent to other
stations, full charge is to be made.
14th. A sender of a dispatch may pay one fourth the tariff of
a message, and he will be entitled to be informed by the station, the exact time of the reception of his dispatch, either at
the destination station, or at the residence of the person to whom
the message was sent. The price for sending back the message
for collation, is one half the tariff of a message.
15th. The identity of the sender can be certified to, on a dispatch, by the station receiving the same. In such cases, the
sending station adds the following, viz.: "The administration of the telegraph attests the identity of the sender." The
charge for this certificate is 31 copecks (about 23~ cents). In
case the director of the station does not know the sender of the
dispatch, his identity can be established by a passport, foreign
or local, or by some officer of a police tribunal.
16th. The maximum of a single dispatch is 25 words.
17th. No dispatch can be transmitted until it has been examined by the director of the station, whose duty it is to see
that it does not contain any objectionable matter. When approved, it is sent.
18Sth. After a dispatch has been received and in transitu, if
the direct line gets out of order, the sender is not to oav the