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9. Whenever more than one signature is attached to a mes- 

 sage count all initials and names as a part of the message. 



10. Dictionary words, initial letters, surnames of persons, 

 names of cities, towns, villages, States, and Territories, or 

 names of the Canadian Provinces will be counted each as one 

 word ; e. g., New York, District of Columbia, East St. Louis 

 should each be counted as one word. The abbreviation of 

 the names of cities, towns, villages, States, Territories, and 

 provinces will be counted the same as if written in full. 



11. Abbreviations of weights and measures in common use, 

 figures, decimal points, bars of division, and in ordinal num- 

 bers the affixes " st," " d," " nd," "rd," and "th" will be 

 each counted as one word. Letters and groups of letters, 

 when such groups do not form dictionary words and are not 

 combinations of dictinary words, will be counted at the rate 

 of five letters or fraction of five letters to a word. When such 

 groups are made up of combinations of dictionary words, each 

 dictionary word so used w^ill be counted. 



12. The following are exceptions to paragraph 55, and are 

 counted as shown; 



A. M 1 word 



P. M L 1 word 



O. K 1 word 



Per cent 1 word 



13. No message will be considered sent until its receipt has 

 been acknowledged by the receiving station. 



The International Morse or General Service Code. 



18. The International Morse Code is the General Service 

 Code and is prescribed for use by the Army of the United 

 States and between the Army and the Navy of the United 

 States. It will be used on radio systems, submarine cables 

 using siphon recorders, and with the heliograph, flash-lan- 

 terns, and all visual signaling apparatus using the wigwag. 



