| The Confederate States |
| Appropriation for Engineer Service |
| To Seaboard & Roanoke R. R. Co. |
| |
| Date 1864 |
|
Dollars |
Cts |
| |
For Interest on one hundred and ten
thousand, eight hundred and ten dollars ($110,810) worth of
Rail Road iron, chairs & spikes, from July 10th, 1863 to
July 1st, 1864 as per certificate of C. F. M. Garnett,
Commissioner &c. |
|
|
| |
11 Mos. & 22 days @ 7 per ct.
per annum |
$7,564 |
18 |
| |
|
|
|
| |
Mem: The company are in no manner
bound by the valuation in any respect, except to regulate the
receipt of interest. |
|
|
| |
Chas. F. M. Garnett, Comr |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
Approved |
|
|
| |
J. F. Gilmer |
|
|
| |
Maj. Genl. & Chief of Bureau |
|
|
|
| |
| I certify that the above account is
correct and just, amounting to Seven thousand five hundred & sixty
four 18/100 Dollars |
| Chas. F. M. Garnett |
| Comr |
| |
| Received at Richmond, Va. the 21st of
September 1864 of Col. A. L. Rives, Corps of Engineers, P. A. C. S.
the sum of Seven thousand five hundred and sixty four Dollars and
Eighteen Cents, in full of the above account. |
| Saml. M. Wilson Prest. |
| S& R R Rd Co |
| {There is no indication of the
value per ton used. If it was the pre-war $50/ton, this would be for
about 2000 tons, which would lay about 20 miles of track, both sides} |
|