Transcribe Smith, F. H. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1876-04-11)

                             HALF RATE MESSAGES

The Western Union Telegraph Company require that all messages received for transmission shall be written on the blanks of the Company, under and subject to the conditions printed thereon, which conditions have been agreed to by the reader of the following HALF RATE MESSAGE. GEO. H. MUMFORD, Sec'y. 60 WILLIAM ORTON, Pres't. ________________________________________________________ Dated, Charlottesville VA ^apl^ 11 1876 Received at Rocj NY to Prof Henry A Wards The miller board unanimously resolved to give eight hundred for interest & one thousand per annum for sinking fund to extinguish ten thousand Francis H Smith 23 Pd 1/2 at my. V.