| {This is the contract referred
to in the Board of Directors Resolution of the Alabama & Florida (of
Alabama) RR of the same date. The first page of the contract is
missing} |
| Rail Road Company hereby binds itself to have their
said Rail Road completed, and in running order on the 10th day of May
next hereafter ensuing, so as to afford and provide, the
transportation above stipulated for, in each particular, |
| And if the said Rail Road shall fail to
have their said Road so completed and in running order by said tenth
day of May, it further binds itself to cause to be transported in
waggons or other vehicles, or in equivalent modes of transportation,
the baggage of troops, munitions of war, subsistence stores, or other
subjects or objects of transportation of said Confederate States, over
any interval, or Gap, of said Rail Road, at any time existing on the
line of said Rail Road between Montgomery and Pensacola, at the only
proper charge, expense and cost of the said Rail Road Company. |
| And in the event that default be made by
said Company in the transportation herein before provided for, in all,
in any, or in either particular thereof then the said Rail Road
Company further binds itself to pay of its own means, to the said
Confederate States, such sum or sums as they shall have paid, or
agreed to pay, for such transportation, done for them by third
parties. |
| And in no instance shall the
transportation for said Confederate States, by the said Rail Road
Company be charged at a greater or higher rate than those established
by said Company, and charged by them usually, as against individuals,
other States, or corporations for like services. |
| In testimony whereof, the said Alabama &
Florida Rail Road Company has on the date above written, signed,
sealed and delivered this memorandum of agreement by the officer, and
in the manner authorized by its charter Constitution and by-laws. |
| Charles T. Pollard |
| Pres A. & F. R R Co |
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| Attest |
| Jno E Baker |
| Secretary |
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