CHAP. 439.—An ACT to define intra-state messages and what is held not
to be such a message. (S. B. 354.)

Approved March 21, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
any message accepted by any telegraph company doing busi-
ness in this State to be sent to another point in this State, shall
be deemed to be an intra-state message. Any telegraph com-
pany that would give such a message as aforesaid the char-
acter, or fix upon such message an interstate character by vir-
tue of the fact that in the course of transit of said message it
is relayed or carried out of the State in sending it, shall intro-
duce evidence that will be satisfactory to the trial court that the
route used in sending said message was the only practicable or
feasible and the most expeditious manner of sending said mes-
sage, and shall introduce as a part of said evidence, charts and
maps showing lines of wires and relay stations to prove such
route as the most desirable and proper route to have been used,
upon request of any complainant.

2. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are
hereby repealed.