A telegraph company shall receive despatches from and for other telegraph companies and associations, and from and for any person; and, upon payment of the usual charges for transmitting despatches according to the regulations of the company, shall transmit them faithfully and impartially.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 166, § 16
Receipt and transmission of despatches
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