| {From the Board of
Director's Minutes of the North East & South West Alabama RR} |
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| Jany. 14th 1863 |
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| Resolved, That the President &
Chief Engineer of the North East & South West Alabama Rail Road Company
be and they are hereby authorized on behalf of the Company to make
arrangements and enter into a contract with the Mobile & Ohio or the
Southern Rail Road Company to run their cars and rolling stock over the
track of the NE& SW Ala. rail road, from Meridian Miss to such a point
as it now is or may be completed, and that the contract so entered into
must be consummated by the President and Engineer acting together, and
that before such contract shall be binding on the Company, the same
shall be ratified by the board. |
| The contract for the lease of
the NE & SW Ala. rail road from Meridian Miss, to Regan and York Station
in Sumpter Co. Ala. was taken up and fully discussed. The following
resolution was unanimously passed, to-wit: |
| Resolved, That
the Board of Directors of the road refuse to ratify the contract entered
into between the President of the NE & SW Ala. R Road Company and G. G.
Griffin Esq., President of the Ala. & Miss. Rivers R. road in reference
to the running of the NE & SW Ala. R. road from Meridian Miss. to York
Station in Sumpter Co., Ala., and that the President and Engineer, or in
the absence of an Engineer on the road, that Mr A. L. Whitfield, in
connection with the President perfect the contract as contemplated by
the resolution of this Board passed at their meeting in Eutaw on May
7th, and that the Sectry. be instructed to inform the President of the
Ala. & Miss. Rivers rail road of the action of this Board. |
| Mr Whitfield offered the
following resolution which, on motion was unanimously adopted,
Resolved that the President and Engineer of this Company are hereby
instructed to ??? for a period not exceeding five years the portion of
the NE & SW Ala. rail road in operation from Meridian Miss to York
Station in Ala. to such of the rail road Companies having roads
connecting therewith as will make the most of available terms, subject
to the ratification of this Board. |
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