§ 28. Transmission of dispatches. Every such corporation shall receive
dispatches from and for other telegraph or telephone lines or
corporations, and from and for any person, and on payment of the usual
charges for transmitting dispatches as established by the rules and
regulations of such corporation, transmit the same with impartiality and
good faith and in the order in which they are received, and if it
neglects or refuses so to do, it shall pay one hundred dollars for every
such refusal or neglect to the person sending or desiring to send any
such dispatch and entitled to have it so transmitted, but arrangements
may be made with the proprietors or publishers or newspapers for the
transmission for publication of intelligence of general and public
interest out of its regular order.