| Executive Department |
| Milledgeville, Georgia |
| November 23d, 1863 |
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| State of Georgia |
| Baldwin County |
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| Articles of agreement made
and entered into this twenty-third day of November eighteen hundred
and sixty three, between Messrs. Seago, Palmer & Co., of Atlanta,
Fulton County, Georgia, the individual members of said firm are A. K.
Seago, L. D. Palmer, S. D. Niles and L. L. Abbott, of the first part,
and Joseph E. Brown, Governor of Georgia, in his official capacity as
Governor of said State of Georgia, and no individually, of the second
part: |
| Witnesseth: That for
the consideration hereinafter mentioned, that said party of the first
part covenant and agree with the said party of the second part, to
make, at Saltville, Virginia, five hundred bushels of salt -- 50 lbs.
to the bushel -- per day, Sabbaths excepted, and such other days as
may be set apart for thanksgiving or humiliation and prayer by
authority of the State government of Virginia, or by the Confederate
government, and except also when the said party of the first part may
be prevented by the public enemy from hauling wood or salt, or both,
by R. R. train to or from the salt works on both the railroads leading
to and from the works between Georgia and the works, or when they may
be prevented from making that quantity of salt per day for want of
salt water being furnished them, or the breaking the engine
hereinafter mentioned, or from some other unavoidable accident, for
said State of Georgia. The said party of the first part agree to ship
said salt to Atlanta, Georgia, as fast as made, if possible, consigned
to the Commissary General of the State, and to superintend the
shipping thereof free of charge. |
| When the salt arrives at
Atlanta it is to be equally divided between the said parties of the
first and second part, each party having one-half and each party to
furnish one-half the sacks at Saltville, and to pay one-half of the
cost of transportation of the salt from Saltville to Atlanta. |
| The said party of the first
part agrees to commence making the salt under the contract by the 16th
day of January, 1864, and to continue during the present war between
the United States and the Confederate States. |
| In consideration that the
said party of the first part covenants and agrees to make the quantity
of salt per day as aforesaid, at Saltville -- to have it all shipped
to Atlanta as aforesaid, and to receive but one-half of it there, said
party of the second part covenants and agrees to furnish the engine
"Texas" and a train of nine box cars, and a few platform
cars now at Saltville belonging to the W. &. A. Road {Western
& Atlantic RR}, to the party of
the first part, to be used by them in hauling wood and salt and
necessary supplies to carry on the works to and from the salt works
without other compensation for the use of said rolling stock; the said
party of the first part to make all ordinary repairs needed upon said
rolling stock at their own expense, and to deliver the same in a
reasonably good condition to the said W. & A. R. Road when the
said party of the first part shall cease to use it for the purposes
aforesaid, or when this contract shall be fulfilled: Provided,
the said rolling stock shall not be taken, cut or destroyed by the
public enemy so that it can not be returned -- or shall be destroyed
by an unavoidable collision or other accident without blame upon the
said party of the first part. |
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| Signed and sealed the day and
year above written. |
| Attest: |
| J. B. Campbell, Sec. Ex. Dept. |
| Leroy Sutton |
| Seago, Palmer & Co. |
| Joseph E. Brown, Governor of Georgia |
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