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{From the minutes of the
Directors' Meeting of the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac RR,
October 5, 1862} |
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| At a meeting of the Board of Directors held at the
office of the Company on the 5th October 1862 |
| The President brought to the attention of
the Board the subject of the following resolution which on motion was unanimously
adopted. |
| Albert a valuable slave about 40 years of
age owned by Mr. W. N. Bragg Superintendent of the Company's Road, who
had for more than ___ years been in the employment of this company as
a train hand in charge of baggage, no piece of which was ever lost
while entrusted to him, whom Mr. Bragg had been induced to buy ___
years since, in a great degree on account of his usefulness to this
company, having been on the ___ day of ___ last killed by the train
running over him while he was endeavoring to save the life of a
soldier, lying asleep on the track. On motion it is ordered that Four
hundred dollars be allowed to Mr. Bragg, as a partial compensation for
the loss so sustained by him, to be credited to him on the balance
unpaid of his note now due to this company, for the purchase of
Negroes conveyed to this company by Edwin Robinson, and sold at
auction on the ___ day of ___, 1860. |
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