| Office Seaboard & Roanoke R R Co |
| Weldon North Carolina June 7 1864 |
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Lt Col F W Sims
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| Chief Rail Road Bureau |
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| Sir, |
| Under the orders of the
Department, this Company has been receiving on freights transported
??? for the Government, in all cases of transportation of freight the
rate allowed for one hundred miles transportation. The reasons which
led to the order and which will fully appear by reference to my letter
on the subject addressed to you last winter are still in full force
and I presume that the order will be considered as applying to the new
tariff of rates agreed on by the Rail Road Convention at Columbia to
take effect on the first of May last. May I ask that if any further
order be necessary, you will cause it to be made. |
| Yours very respectfully |
| Saml M Wilson Prest. |
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| Major C. M. Smith |
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| Major, |
| As heretofore, the Seaboard
& Roanoke R Rd will be estimated as though 100 miles in length and
paid accordingly for freights, as per Columbia Rates Apl 13/64. On
troops the rate per mile actually travelled will obtain. |
| F. W. Sims |
| Lt Col. & Q. M. |
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