| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| August 15, 1864 |
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| Confederate States of America |
| Post-Office Department |
| Richmond, August 12, 1864 |
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| The President of the Virginia Central Railroad
having refused to enter into the usual contract for carrying
the mail on that road, Sealed Proposals will be received at the
Contract Bureau of this Department until 3 P. M. of September 13th,
1864, for conveying the mails of the Confederate States from the 1st
day of October, 1864, to June 30th, 1867, in the State of Virginia, on
the following routes, connecting this city with Staunton: |
| Route No. 2,706.--From Junction, by
Noel's, Beaver Dam, Frederick's Hall, Tolersville, Louisa Court-House,
Trevillian's and Melton's, to Gordonsville--fifty miles and back,
three times a week. |
| Route No. 2,706 (A).--From Gordonsville,
by Cobham, Keswick and Shadwell, to Charlottesville, Virginia--twenty-one miles and back, three times a week. |
| Route No. 2,706 (B).--From
Charlottesville, by the University of Virginia, Ivy, Mechum's river,
Greenwood, Waynesborough and Fishersville, to Staunton--thirty-nine
miles and back, three times a week. |
| Bidders for Route No. 2,706 will propose
schedules of arrivals and departures, making close connection with the
arrival of the mail train on the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac
Railroad at the Junction, with a rate of
speed of travel not less than four miles an hour. The accepted bidders
on the other routes will be required to conform to the schedules,
making close connection with the routes forming the line, and at the
same rate of speed in the transmission of the mails. |
| John H. Reagan |
| Postmaster-General |
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