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382 [letterhead partially covered by handwriting] CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY. CALIFORNIA PACIFIC RAILROAD AND STEAMERS, STOCKTON AND COPPEROPOLIS, STOCKTON AND WSALIA RAILROADS GENERAL FREIGHT OFFICE [[image - finger pointing to text]] All rates regular or special are subject to change or revision, at the pleasure of the Company, and all special rates or contracts must terminate with the year unless otherwise provided. When special rates are offered, notice of acceptance must be given or they will be considered void. [typed text - San Francisco,] Oct 27th 1875 Prof S F Baird Care Smithsonian Institution Washington D.C. Dear Sir: In answer to your favor of 19th inst permit me to say that if you will concentrate your collections at one of the through points in California from which I am allowed to make rates to Baltimore Md say San Francisco San Jose Stockton Sacramento or Marysville. I will endeavor to give you the foarth clas rate or $3.50 [[?]] per [[?]] to Balt: It is impossible to give a rate thro' or beyond the line of our own road from a Way Station or local point. If shipped direct from a local station on our road the freight would be subject to the local rates of each road over which it would pass to destination unless a special order from the Genl [[1st?]] Agent of each road [[?]] each case to make the... [text written sideways at top of letter]You can see how very inconvenient troublesome it would be to obtain [[?]] here and even if given to her that they such orders & even if given to see that they were properly applied.The place of shipping frome onechav'periry [[?]] as suggested herein will be the easiest & cheapest in the east. Yours truly, [[G.F. Tubbs?]] [[?]]
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