AHC, S&M 2/21/1865

{From the minutes of the Directors' Meeting of the Selma & Meridian RR, February 21, 1865}

 
   At a meeting of the Selma & Meridian Rail Rd Co at Selma held on the 21st day of February 1865
   Present Jas L Price President and Directors Lapsley, Reese, and Knox, the following proceedings were had and resolutions adopted, to wit:
   Resolved  That the President of this Company be and he is hereby authorised and empowered to employ and appoint an agent to proceed to Richmond and lay before the Government or proper department thereof, the claims of this Company, for transportation or proper ??? of the same, with the vie of having provision made for the payment of said claims at the earliest practicable day, Provided, the President of the Alabama & Tennessee River Rail Road Company shall concur in the appointment of the same person as the agent of the latter Company, for a similar purpose in relation to the claims of that Company against the Govt.
   Resolved  That the President be and he is hereby authorised to allow such compensation to said agent on the part of this Company, as he may deem proper not exceeding twenty five hundred dollars, in addition to the expenses of the agent in going to and returning from Richmond.

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