With the Amendment to the Telegram Act (Edict by the Grand Council of the State No. 8, the 18th year of Meiji,) of May 7 in the 18th year of Meiji, telegram fee was unified across the nation and 10 kinds of special stamps for telegrams (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15, 25, 50 sen and 1 yen) were issued by the Ministry of Engineering. Price at that time was 15 sen for up tp 10 kana characters and 10 sen was charged for every additional 10 characters.