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Treasurer's Office, Florida Railroad |
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Gainesville, Fla Decr 1st 1862 |
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| I, Saml A Swann, Accountant for the
Florida Railroad Company, do hereby certify that, in the month of
December, 1861, I packed up and took with me, all the Office effects of
said Company from Gainesville to Fernandina Fla. -- among which were
between six and eight volls of the Bonds of said R. R. Company -- say
about 100 of the 8 pr cent Freeland, and about 100 of the Internal Impt.
7 % Bonds, all of $1000 each; and also one roll -- say about 100 of the
Ocala Said Bonds, also the property of said Company. |
| That said Bonds were all carefully done up
in packages sealed and adorned with respective number and description of
Bonds in each roll. |
| That part of said Freeland and Internal
Improvement Bonds were signed by D. L. Yulee Prest. and Geo W. Call
Treasr. -- with the corporate seal of the Company attached, while the
coupons on many of them were also numbered and signed by said Call. |
| The Ocala Said Bonds, I think, were
without numbers or signed or seled while the majority of the other Bonds
were also in blank. |
| That, during the hasty evacuation of the
town of Fernandina by our forces in March last, said packages of Bonds,
with many other valuable papers &c, belonging to said Company, were
necessarily left in the hands of the enemy. |
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Saml. A. Swann |
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Accountant, Fla. R. R. Co. |
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{on the back of the document} |
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I hereby certify that -- while a prisoner in the hands of
the enemy at Fernandina Fla., I saw a United States officer in
possession of the within named Bonds, and that he took them -- in my
presence, on board the Gunboat Pawnee on the 4th day of March last. |
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Wm Savage |