Telegraphs, Telephones, and Radiotelegraphs - 47 USC Section 9
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01/19/04 Sec. 9. Subsidized companies required to construct and operate
lines
All railroad and telegraph companies to which the United States
has granted any subsidy in lands or bonds or loan of credit for the
construction of either railroad or telegraph lines, which, by the
acts incorporating them, or by any act amendatory or supplementary
thereto, are required to construct, maintain, or operate telegraph
lines, and all companies engaged in operating said railroad or
telegraph lines shall, by and through their own respective
corporate officers and employees, maintain, and operate, for
railroad, governmental, commercial, and all other purposes,
telegraph lines, and exercise by themselves alone all the telegraph
franchises conferred upon them and obligations assumed by them
under the acts making the grants as aforesaid.
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