NA, QM 3/20B/1863

Quartermaster General's Department
Richmond, March 20th 1863
 
W. Goodman Esqr
Prest Miss. Cent. R. R.  {President, Mississippi Central RR}
Grenada
  
Sir,
   I have considered your letter of the 3rd instant, in regard to the rate of charges to be allowed in the settlement of the transportation account of your road. I have referred it to Colonel Wadley, for his action, and I had previously advised Major Mims in respect to the matter, in reply to an inquiry received from him.
   Colonel Wadley is charged by General Orders with the control of all Rail Road Transportation, including the duty of regulating by contract the rates at which both freight and men shall be carried on Government account. He does not, as I understand, claim the right to force rates upon any Company but I shall continue to settle according to the old established rates until I am notified of a change therein by him. As at present advised, he has never accepted the rates proposed by the Convention held at Augusta; and while it may be in the power of a Company by due notice to abrogate the existing contract, by due notice that should be given to Colonel Wadley.
A. C. Myers, Q. M. Genl

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