B6, W&A 11/23/1863

Executive Department
Milledgeville, Georgia
November 23d, 1863
 
State of Georgia
Baldwin County
 
   Articles of agreement made and entered into this twenty-third day of November eighteen hundred and sixty three, between Messrs. Seago, Palmer & Co., of Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, the individual members of said firm are A. K. Seago, L. D. Palmer, S. D. Niles and L. L. Abbott, of the first part, and Joseph E. Brown, Governor of Georgia, in his official capacity as Governor of said State of Georgia, and no individually, of the second part:
   Witnesseth: That for the consideration hereinafter mentioned, that said party of the first part covenant and agree with the said party of the second part, to make, at Saltville, Virginia, five hundred bushels of salt -- 50 lbs. to the bushel -- per day, Sabbaths excepted, and such other days as may be set apart for thanksgiving or humiliation and prayer by authority of the State government of Virginia, or by the Confederate government, and except also when the said party of the first part may be prevented by the public enemy from hauling wood or salt, or both, by R. R. train to or from the salt works on both the railroads leading to and from the works between Georgia and the works, or when they may be prevented from making that quantity of salt per day for want of salt water being furnished them, or the breaking the engine hereinafter mentioned, or from some other unavoidable accident, for said State of Georgia. The said party of the first part agree to ship said salt to Atlanta, Georgia, as fast as made, if possible, consigned to the Commissary General of the State, and to superintend the shipping thereof free of charge.
   When the salt arrives at Atlanta it is to be equally divided between the said parties of the first and second part, each party having one-half and each party to furnish one-half the sacks at Saltville, and to pay one-half of the cost of transportation of the salt from Saltville to Atlanta.
   The said party of the first part agrees to commence making the salt under the contract by the 16th day of January, 1864, and to continue during the present war between the United States and the Confederate States.
   In consideration that the said party of the first part covenants and agrees to make the quantity of salt per day as aforesaid, at Saltville -- to have it all shipped to Atlanta as aforesaid, and to receive but one-half of it there, said party of the second part covenants and agrees to furnish the engine "Texas" and a train of nine box cars, and a few platform cars now at Saltville belonging to the W. &. A. Road {Western & Atlantic RR}, to the party of the first part, to be used by them in hauling wood and salt and necessary supplies to carry on the works to and from the salt works without other compensation for the use of said rolling stock; the said party of the first part to make all ordinary repairs needed upon said rolling stock at their own expense, and to deliver the same in a reasonably good condition to the said W. & A. R. Road when the said party of the first part shall cease to use it for the purposes aforesaid, or when this contract shall be fulfilled: Provided, the said rolling stock shall not be taken, cut or destroyed by the public enemy so that it can not be returned -- or shall be destroyed by an unavoidable collision or other accident without blame upon the said party of the first part.
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   Signed and sealed the day and year above written.
Attest:
J. B. Campbell, Sec. Ex. Dept.
Leroy Sutton
Seago, Palmer & Co.
Joseph E. Brown, Governor of Georgia

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