NP, RD 8/15C/1864

From the Richmond Dispatch
 
August 15, 1864
 
Confederate States of America
Post-Office Department
Richmond, August 12, 1864
 
   The President of the Virginia Central Railroad having refused to enter into the usual contract for carrying the mail on that road, Sealed Proposals will be received at the Contract Bureau of this Department until 3 P. M. of September 13th, 1864, for conveying the mails of the Confederate States from the 1st day of October, 1864, to June 30th, 1867, in the State of Virginia, on the following routes, connecting this city with Staunton:
   Route No. 2,706.--From Junction, by Noel's, Beaver Dam, Frederick's Hall, Tolersville, Louisa Court-House, Trevillian's and Melton's, to Gordonsville--fifty miles and back, three times a week.
   Route No. 2,706 (A).--From Gordonsville, by Cobham, Keswick and Shadwell, to Charlottesville, Virginia--twenty-one miles and back, three times a week.
   Route No. 2,706 (B).--From Charlottesville, by the University of Virginia, Ivy, Mechum's river, Greenwood, Waynesborough and Fishersville, to Staunton--thirty-nine miles and back, three times a week.
   Bidders for Route No. 2,706 will propose schedules of arrivals and departures, making close connection with the arrival of the mail train on the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad at the Junction, with a rate of speed of travel not less than four miles an hour. The accepted bidders on the other routes will be required to conform to the schedules, making close connection with the routes forming the line, and at the same rate of speed in the transmission of the mails.
John H. Reagan
Postmaster-General

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