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Circular |
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| Confederate States of America |
| Quarter Master General's Office |
| Richmond, Va., Sept. 12, 1862 |
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| I hereby approve and accept
the Tariff for Government Transportation adopted by the Rail Road
Convention held at Columbia, South Carolina, on the 4th September 1862,
as follows: |
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| Transportation of Troops and Other Persons
on Public Service |
| The rate of two cents per mile
per man for the transportation of Troops is to be adhered to on the main
or thoroughfare roads, and the rate to be increased to three cents per
mile on the side lines, not thoroughfares. (The words "side lines, not
thoroughfares," include only such branch or independent roads as do not
connect at one end with either a rail road, a navigable river or a
densely settled place, and are not main or thoroughfare roads.) |
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| Transportation of Government Freight by
Freight Trains |
| These rates are identical with
those adopted by the Rail Road Convention held at Chattanooga on the 4th
October 1861, and are as follows: |
| First Class --
Percussion caps, powder and fixed ammunition, 45 cts per 100 lbs. per
100 miles. |
| Second Class -- All the
freights shipped for the government, except live stock, hay, bran, and
the articles enumerated in first class, at 20 cts. per 100 lbs. per 100
miles. |
| Third Class -- Live
stock, per car load, $0 per car per 100 miles. |
| Fourth Class -- Hay and
bran, per car load, $15 per car per 100 miles. |
| For less than a car load of
live stock, the local rates of each road to be charged. |
| The labor and expense of
loading and unloading and the detention of cars for the same, being as
much for short as for long distances, less than 100 miles should be
charged as 100 miles. |
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| Freight by Passenger Trains |
| Government freight ordered and
carried by passenger rains, to be fifty per cent. higher than that
carried by freight trains. |
| Through tickets to be
furnished to wounded officers or soldiers and discharged men, at the
above rates. |
| For the carriage of bodies of
men killed in battle, or who die in the service, each rail road shall
adopt its own regulations. |
| These rates to go into
operation on the 1st October 1862. |
| A. C. Myers |
| Q. M. General |