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elucidation of the subject; but desire to state that the taking of the Six hundred and thirty six tons of iron from this Company was an absolute and forceable seizure by the Agents of the Confederate States, done in despite of persistent protest on the part of the Company and that the Company had not up to the date of the accompanying articles of agreement and has not sinse received any compensation for the property so seized.

It was seized at a time when its Road was in progress and subjected it not merely to a loss of property but to a irreparable damage to its general interests.

The Atlantic & Gulf Rail Road was destroyed by the forces of the United States for 35 and one half miles extending from the Great Oguchee to the Altamaha River, and this Company is now endeavoring under the most serious ambarrassments to reconstruct this section of its line.  In full confidence of the just consideration of its claims by the Government, it has relied upon obtaining the Six hundred and thirty six tons of iron Rails alluded to, which will be sufficient to enable it to restore at an early period the damage above mentioned