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CHAPTER 1⁠—TELEGRAPHS — Front Matter

Chap.Sec.
1 to 8.Repealed or Omitted.
9.Subsidized companies required to construct and operate lines.
10.Equal facilities to connecting lines; discrimination in rates.
11.Powers of Federal Communications Commission.
12.Interference with liens of United States.
13.Violations; punishment; action for damages.
14.Contracts filed with Federal Communications Commission; reports; failure to make.
15.Reservation of power to alter, amend, or repeal act; power to fix rates and purchase lines.
16.Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System; money transfers; portion of receipts withheld.
17.Repealed.