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restricted to the subscribers, their families, servants, and em- 

 ployees. Proprietors of hotels and other public places pay the 

 ordinary rate and are allowed to place their instruments at the 

 disposal of their customers, but are limited to 2,000 communica- 

 tions per annum. Any over that number are charged 3*36^. each, 

 which charge the subscriber, if he likes, may collect from the 

 person making the call. 



In the event of a subscriber removing he must bear the cost 

 of the labour, but not of the material, involved in shifting his 

 instrument. Subscribers are entitled to a proportionate refund 

 when an interruption lasts longer than thirty days. 



3. Rates for telephoning telegrams. For each telegram 

 transmitted to, or received from, a telegraph office by telephone, 

 a charge of "98^. is made, irrespective of the number of words. 

 The arrangement for ensuring payment of charges under this and 

 the following heading is ingenious, and peculiar to Luxemburg. 

 No deposit in advance is exacted, so that every subscriber can 

 profit by the service without previous notice or agreement, but 

 the subscription which he has paid in advance for his exchange 

 line is debited with the costs of telegrams forwarded or received. 

 At the end of the month a memorandum of the amount of this 

 debit is presented, which the subscriber is expected to make good 

 immediately : should he not do so, his exchange agreement is 

 considered curtailed by the number of days represented by the 

 amount of the debit, and his instrument may be taken out that 

 number of days before the expiration of the period for which he 

 had paid. 



4. Rates for telephoning local messages and mail matter. 

 The charge is '98^. per message, irrespective of length, plus the 

 cost, 3'36</., of the messenger employed to effect delivery, or of 

 the postage, as the case may be. 



5. Rates at public telephone stations. The charge to non- 

 subscribers is 3 -36^. for five minutes' talk with any subscriber 

 within the limits of the Grand Duchy. Two non-subscribers 

 conversing together from different public stations are charged 

 double fee. Subscribers, on showing a card furnished by the 

 administration, use the public stations free. 



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