The telegraph manual: a complete history and description of the semaphoric, electric and magnetic telegraphs of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, ancient and modern.

794 ENGLISH INTERNATIONAL TARIFF.
PORTERAGE.-By post (registered) within the country, 5d.; to other
places, Is. 2d.; beyond the Continent of Europe, 2s.; from any station in
Spain to Gibraltar, Is. 2d.
When a message is addressed to "'post-office," "poste restante,' the
usual postage of the country the place is in to which it is addressed, must
be prepaid by the sender.
By foot messenger, a maximum distance of 10 kilometres=6 English
miles. 2s.
By estafette, deposits must always be made.
The charges will be communicated by the receiving to the sending station, as soon as they are known.
Rules and Regulations, for Messages to Russia, Turkey, the Principalities, Tuscany, Modena, Parma, the Papal States, N~aples and Sicily.Counting Words and Syllables.
1. A single dispatch is to contain from one to twenty-five words, a
double dispatch from twenty-six to fifty, and a treble dispatch from fiftyone to one hundred words. Messages must not contain more than one
hundred words-if the matter required to be forwarded exceeds that number, the overplus must be sent as a new dispatch.
2. Words must not exceed seven syllables; the overplus is to be counted
as one word.
Compound words not coupled by hyphens are to count as one word.
Words coupled by hyphens are counted separately.
Words or letters followed or preceded by an apostrophe count as one
word.
Hyphens, apostrophes, and other stops, are not reckoned.
Signs or marks which cannot be telegraphed are spelt as words and
counted as such.
Example- ( ) &c.
That is, instructions must be given at end of message, explaining which
words are to be so marked and these instructions must be counted and
charged as part of the dispatch.
A single letter counts as one word.
Words such as " Winemerchant," "' Regentstreet,/ " Postoffice," "Linendraper,' " Today," " Tomorrow," "Onepenny, " Threepence,%" &c., up
to "Elevenpence,"' if written in one word, are counted as one, but if
separated by hyphens, or separately written, they count as two words.
"One shilling," "Two shillings." &c., &c., are always counted as two
words: nor can this be evaded by writing "Twelvepence,"' Eighteenpence," "Twentypence," &c.
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NOTE. - "Telegraphenantwort," "Bestmoglichst," "Damppfschiffschleptahrtsgesellschaft," and the like are to be counted as one word.
3. In private messages, every separate group of five figures or less
count as one word; if a group of figures contains more than five, it
reckons as two words up to ten figures, and so on.
Compound numbers, written in figures, count in the same manner, the
stroke or sign which divides them reckoning as a figure-thus, 1} is one
word, and 115 two words; 201, 251, 3016, 40,6, 45,6, and the like, count as
one word.
Decimal points and signs of division count as figures.
4 Numbers when written together in letters, as twenty-four, Thirty.