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The Confederate States
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Appropriation for Engineer Service
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To Brunswick & Albany Railroad Co |
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for services removing iron |
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| Date |
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Dollars |
Cents |
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To Hire of 2 Locomotives 19 days each from 9th
Sept to 30 Sept 1863 -- 35 days $25 pr day |
950 |
00 |
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" Hire of 2 Locomotives 10 days each
from 12 Oct to 21 Oct 1863 -- 20 days @ $25 |
500 |
00 |
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" Hire of one Locomotive from 24 Oct
to 5 Dec 1863 -- 36 days @ $25 |
900 |
00 |
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" Hire of one Locomotive from 24 Oct
to 14 Nov 1863 -- 18 days @ $25 |
450 |
00 |
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" Hire of 3 pols cars from 21 Oct to
5 Dec 1863 -- 39 days each -- 117 days @ $2.50 |
292 |
50 |
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" Fuel consumed by above Locomotives |
900 |
00 |
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" Oil & water
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400 |
00 |
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" Services one Engineer 112 days @
$10 pr day |
1120 |
00 |
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" two Firemen
112 " each @ $6.00 |
1344 |
00 |
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" three men pumping water
& cutting wood 112 days each -- 336 days @ $2.00 |
672 |
00 |
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7528 |
50 |
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| I certify that the above
account is correct and just, amounting to Seventy five hundred and
twenty eight & 50/100 dollars, and Major Herman Hirsch Quarter
Master at Savannah, will pay that sum to Charles L. Schlatter
President of the Brunswick & Albany Railroad Company of Georgia,
or order, and charge to Engineer Appropriation. |
| 21 May
1864 Minor Meriwether Lt Col Engineer P. A. C. S. & Comr |
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| Received at Savannah Ga the 21 of July1864 of
Minor Meriwether ??? Qr Mr P. A. C. S. Seventy Five Hundred Twenty
eight dollars and fifty cents, in full of the above account. |
| Charles L. Schlatter |
| President B&A R. R. Co |