| {From the minutes of the
Directors' Meeting of the Virginia Central RR,
April 27, 1861} |
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| Richmond April 27 1861 |
| At a meeting of the Board of Directors
of the Virginia Central Rail Road Company present |
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E Fontaine |
President |
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Jacob Baylor |
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Saml Carpenter |
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N B Hill |
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Wm Overton |
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| Resolved, that the Genl Superintendent
be authorised to purchase a cheap uniform for such of the operatives
connected with the Company at Richmond as may meet themselves with a
Military Company for the protection of the Company's property, who
he thinks can not afford to purchase their own uniform |
| The following change was made in the
Contract for finishing the Road to Covington |
| Richmond Va April 27 1861 |
| It is mutually agreed between the
undersigned Contractors and the Virginia Central Railroad Company to
change the terms of the contract for finishing the Section from the
terminus to Covington in the following measures viz The Contractors
agree to receive Fifty per cent in Cash, twenty five per cent in the
Stock of the Compy and twenty five per cent in the bonds of the
Compy at twenty five per cent payable one half in one year the other
half in two years in denominations of ten, twenty, fifty and one
hundred dollars bearing six per cent interest payable annually. This
arrangement to commence with the estimates payable on the first day
of June. |
| It is further agreed that if it should
be impracticable for the Company to obtain the Cash necessary for
the payments mentioned above the Contractors will accept the
suspension of the work either partial or total, two weeks notice
being given |
| Witness our hands this the day above
mentioned |
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E Fontaine |
Prest |
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H. Cady |
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E. Steers & Co |
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Thos Steurs & Co |
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Thos. Steerst & Bro. |
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Gallahan & McElroy |
by M. A. Pender |
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