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[CITE: 47USC9]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                          CHAPTER 1--TELEGRAPHS
 
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.

(Aug. 7, 1888, ch. 772, Sec. 1, 25 Stat. 382.)


                            Cross References

    Federal Communications Commission, jurisdiction of, see section 601 
of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 10, 11, 12, 15, 601 of this 
title.
