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Clubs, and establishments where the public have admittance 

 to the instrument, pay i8/. per annum. 



All other towns with a population of over 25,000. The rate 

 within the free limits is 8/. per annum; beyond the limits, 12$. 

 per kilometer additional is exigible. Subscribers supply their own 

 transmitter, receiver, extra bells, &c., and pay for their line at the 

 rate of I2S. per hundred meters of single wire, equal to about 

 io/. 45-. for single and 2o/. 8s. for metallic circuit per mile. If 

 the line extends beyond the limits and requires a special route of 

 poles, the cost per 100 meters of single wire is increased to i6.f. 

 Clubs and public establishments pay i2/. per annum. 



In all other respects the rates are the same as those charged 

 at Lyons. 



Towns with a population of less than 25,000. The rate 

 within the free limits is 61. per annum for ordinary subscribers, 

 and 9/. for clubs and public establishments. In all other respects 

 the rates and regulations are the same as in the larger towns, 

 Paris and Lyons excepted. 



General. Rates are everywhere reduced 50 per cent, for 

 Government and 25 per cent, for municipal connections. 



Agreements are for one year dating from January i or July i 

 after connection. Subsequently they are subject to three months' 

 notice on either side. 



It would seem that some subscribers join for the purpose of 

 using the trunks only. In such a case only half the usual local 

 subscription is charged. 



When there are several switch-rooms in the same town, a 

 subscriber joined to one who has frequent communication with a 

 subscriber joined to another may arrange to retain the use of one 

 of the junction lines between the two switch-rooms, and to be left 

 through permanently to his correspondent (unless a special dis- 

 connection signal is given), for an extra annual subscription of 6/. 

 in Paris and Lyons, and of i/. los. elsewhere, per kilometer of 

 junction line involved. 



Subscribers located outside the free limits of a town have to 

 pay the fares and expenses of the inspectors who attend to their 

 instruments. 



The State reserves the right to disconnect any subscriber at 



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