| Show WAR REVENUE Stamps Will Be Enquired On Telegrams Tele-grams After July 1 Manager Demarest of the Western Union Telegraph company yesterday issued the followingstatement for the benefit of the public The war revenue law requires that on and after July 1 1898 under penalty of 10 no telegraph company or its agents shall transmit to any person any dispatch or message without an adhesI he 1cent stamp being affixed to a copy hereof or stampel thereupon The I fOllowing instructions are therefore to be observed The senders of each of Xiir a C > a c CO I the undermentioned classes of business must be required to attach a 1cent documentary revenue stamp thereto before be-fore the message can be accepted for transmission that is Full paid messages mes-sages day or night collect messages messages sent under business or half rate franks messages received by telephone tele-phone from customers direct the cost of the necessary stamps is to be added to the iccount rendered messages collected in answer to call bells messengers mes-sengers are instructed to require stamps for the messages press dispatches I wren presented at Western Union counter coun-ter a Ftampmust be required for such I dispatch irrespective of its number of i words or number of addresses On dispatches transmitted direct from newspaper offices a stamp must be attached at-tached by the sender to each dispatch irrespective of the number of words it contains or number of addresses before be-fore dispatches are sent to the Western I West-ern Union to be booked The law provides pro-vides that the person using or affixing i the stamp shall write or stamp thereupon i there-upon the initials of his name and date upon which the same shall be attached or used so that the same may not again be used Stamps can be procured pro-cured A 6f deputy internal revenue collector col-lector 612 McCornick block |
