CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12] — Page 88

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Goverment one

half the total cost of

:) erecting all the ports to be used by

the Company and of both the

both the original

and the new wires, that is to say,

the rate of

me

four dollars

per

ät

hundred and sixty-

mile.

& The Government and the Company

will defray in equal shan the expense of maintaining and renewing). the said ports and wire and of

Keeping

Them

in good working order- and condition. Provided always that

in

-case)

shall

any

other Telegraph Company

apply to the Government for

permission to use the said

Telegraph

posts, such permission shall not be granted accept on the condition that