| From the Greensboro (N. C.) Patriot |
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| October 27, 1864 |
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| Piedmont Railroad Company |
| Supt. Office, Danville, August 15, '64 |
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| Notice |
| All negroes, whether free or slaves, must
be required to buy tickets before getting on the trains. |
| Conductors will arrest all negroes, whom
they find on their trains without tickets sold by Station Agents, and
place them in jail, unless satisfied on examination of their papers,
that they are free, when they will stop the train and put them off. |
| Station Agents will not sell tickets to
any negro, until they have ascertained, by examination of their
papers, whether they are slaves or free -- and will not then sell a
thicket to a slave, unless he can show two well authenticated passes
from his owner, or his owner's authorized agent. One of these will be
retained by the negro, and the other will be filed by the Agent. |
| Charles G. Talcot |
| Superintendent, P. R. R. |
| per H. R. Terry |
| Supt. Ast. Clerk & Ticket Agent |
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