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• Western Union Telegraph Company 
• 1 Short title
• 2 Interpretation
• 3 Authority to Company to lay cable
• 4 Company not to place works, etc., on foreshore without consent
• 5 Minister may remove from foreshore things placed there without consent
• 6 Company bound by Convention of 14th March, 1884
• 7 Telegraph to be open to all
• 8 Duties of Company
• 9 Wilful or negligent omission or delay over messages
• 10 Company’s stations in Barbados to be under management of Western Telegraph Company
• 11 Regulations
• 12 Messages on Her Majesty’s service to have priority
• 13 On an emergency Governor-General may take possession of works and lines
• 14 Notice of interruption to be given to Minister
• 15 Concession not to be assigned without consent
• 16 Privileges and concessions to cease in certain events
• 17 Effects of two years’ discontinuance
• 18 Penalty for violations of Act
• 19 Method of recovery of penalties
• 20 Repugnancy to United Kingdom Act
• 21 Act not to affect rights of Crown