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{From the minutes of the
Directors' Meeting of the Alabama & Mississippi Rivers RR, February
22, 1863} |
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| Office of Ala & Miss RRR Co |
| Demopolis Feby 22d & 26th 1863 |
| The board of Directors of this Company met
at their office at 2 oclock M |
| Present G G Griffin President and
Directors W P Bocock R H Hudson C Walker J W Lasley Jus L Price and R D
Shackleford |
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| The following motions were then adopted |
| That the President be and he is hereby
authorized to credit all accounts due and to become from the Government
of the Confederate States for Transportation, on any debt of this
Company to the Confederate States, contracted as the purchase of Iron
paid for by the Government |
| Whereas Henry Walker, employed as a
freight Engine Driver on the road of this company has been guilty of
flagrant violation of duty by reckless driving of his engine, whereby
the Company has sustained heavy damages and life has been lost by it.
Resolved |
| That the Company regard the said Walker as
unworthy the trust heretofore reposed in him as an Engine Driver, and
that he be forthwith discharged from the service of the Company, and
that as a slight compensation for the damage he has caused the Company
his wages not here to him paid be withheld |
| That the Superintendent be instructed to
cause all the Train hands to be immediately vaccinated and to direct the
road master to have the hands regularly employed on the repairs to be
vaccinated |