LVA, RF&P 4/21/1862

{From the minutes of the Directors' Meeting of the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac RR, April 21, 1862}

 
   The President brought to the attention of the meeting the subject of the possible occupation by the military forces of the United States of this city and Rail Road and asked the views and instructions of the Stockholders as to what course should be pursued in such a contingency as to the disposal of this Company's movable property and the functions of its officers, proposed as a means of eliciting those views and instructions for the deliberations and action of the meeting the following resolutions
1st    Resolved that in the event of the occupation of this city by the Military forces of the United States, The President and Directors of this Company be and are hereby instructed as far as may be practicable to cause the Locomotives, Cars, & other machinery of the rail road to be removed to some place of safety, and as to so much thereof as it may not be practicable to so remove that the President shall give notice that it cannot be removed to the Secretary of War.
2d    Resolved, That in the event of such occupation the authority and functions of the officers and employees of this company, except for the purpose of preserving its books, papers, and other property and of settling its previous business and accounts shall during the continuance of such occupation be superseded; as shall also the compensation now paid to them respectively; except that all officers and employees, then in the service of this company except the President shall receive one months pay in advance, beyond what shall be due to them at the date of such suspension and that the Treasurer, Superintendent and Master Machinist shall continue to receive respectively after the expiration of that month such portions of the compensation now received by them respectively as the Board of Directors exclusive of the President shall deem it proper to allow.
   After some discussion, on motion, the first resolution was adopted.
   The second resolution was then on motion of Mr Ellis amended by insertion before the word "Treasurer" in the (13th) thirteenth line the word "President" and also by striking out the words at the beginning "the occupation of the City of Richmond by the Military forces or other authorities of the United" so as to make it read:
   Resolved that in the event of the occupation of the City of Richmond by the Military forces, or other authorities of the United States, the authority and functions of the Officers and Employees of this Company, except for the purposes of preserving its books, papers and other property and of settling its previous business and accounts, shall during the continuance of such occupation be suspended; as shall also the compensation now paid to them respectively except that all officers and employees then in the service of this Company except the President shall receive one months pay in advance, beyond what shall be due to them at the date of such suspension, and that the President, Treasurer, Superintendents, and Master Machinist shall continue to receive respectively after the expiration of that month such portion of the compensation now received by them respectively as the Board of Directors exclusive of the President shall deem it proper to allow.
   After some discussion the Second (2nd) Resolution was then also adopted.
   On motion of Col Crozat the vote adopting the first of these two resolutions was reconsidered and then on motion of Mr. Myers, the first resolution as to the removal of the machinery of this company was indefinitely postponed.

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