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officer shall be bound to send more than two hundred
words of any telegram at one time.

In carrying out this rule great judgment must be
used by officers in charge whose object will be to
cause as little delay as possible to Press telegrams
consistently with fairness to the commercial public
and others using the telegraph.

(See precautionary measures at end of list of codes,
in rule 17 Schedule B.)

Equal justice is to be done to all members of the
Press by transmitting fairly and equally the two
hundred words prescribed by the regulations and
conditions where such restriction is necessary, or an
equal number of more than two hundred words as
circumstances will permit in accordance with pre-
cautionary measures laid down in rule 17 Schedule B.

Instructions for Receiving Clerks.

37. Telegrams must be written in a clear and
    legible manner in ink or some indelible matter but
    not in lead pencil, they must bear an intelligible and
    proper address and must be signed by the sender.

No abbreviations must be allowed in writing tele-
grams.

38. Special instructions as to the delivery of tele-
    grams whether by man and horse, by cab, omnibus,
    or by post, should be distinctly written on the back
    of the telegram form together with the amount
    charged for such delivery, and the whole signed by
    the person presenting the telegram for transmission.

39. The amount paid for the transmission and
    delivery of any telegram must be written on the face
    of each telegram, in the proper place printed for that
    purpose on each telegram form, and the clerk receiv-
    ing such money must affix his initials to the sum to
    show that he was the receiver of such telegram.

40. Any officer or servant receiving a telegram
    shall give a receipt according to the authorized form
    for all charges made and shall sign the same in full
    and give the date on which the moneys specified
    therein were received.

41. Telegrams of a seditious, libelous, indecent, or
    injurious nature are to be refused acceptance and
    transmission by the officer in charge of any Station.

The utmost care, however, must be taken in carry-
ing out this rule, and in the case of a telegram being
refused transmission the full circumstances of the case
must be at once reported by letter to the General
Manager.

42. The sender or receiver of a telegram, when
    properly identified, may be allowed to see the Station
    copy of such telegram, or to receive a copy or copies
    of such telegram on payment of the tariff rates for
    each copy so required from the officer of the depart-
    ment.

Payment of Receipts and rendering Accounts.

43. All officers shall give security for the due per-
    formance of their duty in a bond for such amount as
    shall be required according to the trust reposed in
    them; such securities must be approved and the
    bonds executed by the respective parties within three
    months after the notification of their appointments.

44. When an officer hears of the death or bank-
    ruptcy of one of his sureties he is to report the same
    to the General Manager, and to give in the name of
    another person to become surety for him, and it will
    be his imperative duty to transmit annually to the
    Electric Telegraph Commissioner a report as to his
    sureties being alive and solvent.

45. All cash received for the transmission and
    delivery of telegrams shall be entered in a cash book
    provided for the purpose and the officer in charge of
    a Station shall balance up his cash receipts with his
    cash book daily.

Should any excess be found which cannot be
accounted for, it must be paid into the bank with the
ordinary receipts, but should any deficiency occur
full particulars of the case must be immediately
reported to the General Manager, and the officer in
charge is bound to use his utmost endeavours to
ascertain the cause of the deficiency, and to report
thereon to the General Manager.

46. All cash or moneys received on account of the
    department, whether for the transmission, delivery,
    porterage, or postage of telegrams, together with all
    moneys received for Press accounts, or from the
    officers of other lines, shall be paid daily into the
    nearest bank or most convenient Sub-Treasury, or as
    otherwise specially directed.

A monthly account-current of all moneys received
and expended, supported by vouchers, and prepared
in such form as shall be directed by the Electric
Telegraph Commissioner, shall be furnished by the
officer in charge, and forwarded to the Auditor-
General not later than the fourth day of each month.

A monthly statement of receipts and expenditure,
in such form as shall be directed by the General
Manager, shall be transmitted to the General Manager
not later than the fourth day of each month.

No deductions are allowed to be made from the
Station cash receipts. Payment for telegrams trans-
mitted on other lines, for special porterage and
postage of telegrams, must be made out of imprest
advances, in accordance with Treasury Regulations
32, 33, 34, and 35.

47. Forwarded and received abstracts must be kept
    at each Station, and all telegrams must be entered
    daily therein, according to the special instructions
    that will be issued as occasion may require.

These abstracts are to be forwarded to the General
Manager as near weekly as possible by the regular
mails.

48. All telegrams must be sent up to the Chief
    Station at least weekly, where such is practicable ;
    but where mails do not leave oftener than every ten
    or fifteen days, the telegrams must be made up with
    the abstracts, and forwarded to the Chief Station up
    to the latest possible date by each mail.

49. The General Manager to furnish quarterly
    returns of stores, showing receipts and expenditure;
    and officers in charge of Stations or Store Depôts are
    required to keep an account of the furniture, instru-
    ments, materials, tools, and other stores belonging to
    their Stations or Depôts, and to send in to the
    General Manager at the termination of each month a
    return showing what articles have been received, sent
    away, or used during the month, for what purposes
    they were used, when sent away, and from whence
    received, as well as a requisition for any articles
    required for the following month.

50. Officers in charge of Stations or Store Depôts
    must keep an account of all stationery received, used,
    or sent away, and must forward a return to the
    General Manager at the beginning of each month,
    showing what articles have been used, sent away, or
    received during the previous month, together with a
    requisition for the supply of any articles required for
    the following month.

Officers will be held responsible for keeping their
Stations and Depôts properly supplied with stationery,
and none but the monthly requisitions will be
attended to.

It will be advisable to keep a month's supply of
stationery always on hand, and requisitions must be.
made accordingly.

Delivery of Telegrams.

51. Officers and servants must use their utmost
    endeavours to have all telegrams delivered to the
    person or persons to whom they may be addressed as
    speedily as possible.

52. On the delivery of any telegram, the messenger
    or person delivering such telegram shall take a receipt