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4. Rates for internal trunk communication. Between any 

 two exchanges in Wiirtemberg outside the suburban and district 

 limits, a uniform charge of $d. per indivisible unit of five minutes 

 is levied. Longer talks are allowed if no one else wants the line. 

 When several are waiting their turns, a subscriber may gain pre- 

 cedence of them all by demanding an ' express ' or ' urgent' talk, for 

 which he is charged triple the usual rate. A subscriber may be 

 connected simultaneously to two or more in another town on pay- 

 ing 2d. per five minutes extra for each additional connection. 

 Trunk charges, and all others involving the giving of credit by the 

 State, must be covered by deposit. Accounts are rendered monthly, 

 but may be required to be settled sooner if the amount reaches 



2.1. I OS. 



5. Rates for international trunk communication. The time 

 unit with Baden (except Heidelberg and Mannheim) and Bavaria 

 is five minutes ; with Austria, Switzerland, Heidelberg, and Mann- 

 heim, three minutes. 



The rates between such places as are permitted to talk (see 

 p. 421) are is. to Baden, Bavaria, and Austria, and is. 2d. to Swit- 

 zerland. 



Express talks are not allowed with Austria and Switzerland. 

 When an intermediate country is traversed, as is Bavaria when 

 Wiirtemberg talks to Austria, and as are Bavaria and Austria when 

 Wiirtemberg talks to Switzerland, a proportion of the through rate 

 is paid to those countries for the use of their lines, apparatus, 

 and operators. 



6. Public telephone station rates. Payments may be by talk, 

 or by monthly or annual subscription. 



Five-minute local talk, subscriber . . . . id. 



,, ,, non-subscriber . . . . 2d. 



Subscription entitling to use of all public telephone stations in 

 Stuttgart and its suburbs : 



s. d. 

 Per month . . . . . . . .040 



,, annum . . . . . . . .200 



Five minutes' district talk, no distinction between 



subscribers and non-subscribers . . . .003 



