1020 Trrmr ucv.-TELEGRAPHS. Penalty for re- Sec. 5269. Whenever any telegraph company, after having tiled its f,‘::“l ,0**,*: m"“m“’ written acceptance with the P0stmaster—Genera of the restrictions and __il’i_?;.. obli ations req_uired by the act approved July twenty-fourth, eighteen 10 June, 1872, ¢· hundred and sixty-six, entitled “An act to aid in the construction of gag '· 17- PP- telegraph lines, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for 25 Fej,__ 1877 c_ postal, military, and other purposes," or by this Title, shall, by its agents 63, 19, p. 232: or employes, refuse or netglect to transmit any such telegraphic communi- 27 FP6. 1877. v- cations as are provided or by the aforesai act, or by this Title, or by °°· ”· 19-7* 252 the provisions of section two hundred and twenty-one, Title "Tm·: Drnnrmmrr or Wan," authorizing the Secretary of War to provide for taking meteorological observations at the military stations and other points of the interior of the continent, and for giving notice on the northern lakes and sea-board of the approach and force of storms, such telegraph company shall be liable to a penalty of not less than one hundre dollars and not more than one thousand dollars for each such refusal or neglect. [To be recovered by an action or actions at law in any district court of the United States.]
