Richard Yates to Edwin M. Stanton

Illinois and Mississippi Telegraph Company.

Terms and conditions on which Messages are received by this company for transmission.

The public are notified, that, in order to guard against mistakes in the transmission of messages, every message of importance ought to be repeated, by being sent back from the station at which it is to be received, to the station from which it is originally sent. Half the usual price for transmission will be charged for repeating the message. This Company will not be responsible for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery of unrepeated messages, from whatever cause they may arise; nor will it be responsible for damages arising from mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery of a repeated message, beyond an amount exceeding two hundred times the amount paid for sending the message; nor will it be responsible for delays arising from interruptions in the working of the Telegraphs, nor for any mistake or omission of any other Company over whose lines a message is to be sent to reach the place of destination. All messages will hereafter be received by this Company for transmission, subject to the above conditions.

Send the following Message, subject to the above conditions:

Augt 21st 1862

To Hon. E M Stanton, Secretary of War

Henry Case late a major in the 7th Illinois Cavalry was compelled to resign on account of long continued ill-health. His health is now restored - he has raised a co under the late call & been unanimously elected captain. He is an officer of ability. I ask that the rule be suspended in his case, and that I am allowed to commission him.

Richd Yates Governor

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Hon E M Stanton

Aug 21/62

asks that rule may be suspended and Henry Case late Major 7th Cav comssd as Capt--