The Florida Senate

363.01  Rates.--No telegraph, cable company nor any company transmitting telegraph messages in the state shall charge and collect more than 4 cents per word for the first 10 words, exclusive of the date, address and signature, of any message transmitted over any ocean or cable telegraph line a distance of 100 miles; 2 cents per word for every additional word for the same number of miles within the state and proportionate rates for any greater or less number of miles that any message is transmitted. They shall also not charge more than 2 cents per word for the first 10 words of any message transmitted over any land telegraph line within the state for the first 100 miles, 1 cent per word for every additional word of any message for the same number of miles within the state and proportionate rates for any greater or less number of miles that any message is transmitted.

History.--s. 1, ch. 3609, 1885; RS 2258; GS 2829; RGS 4382; CGL 6346; s. 7, ch. 22858, 1945.