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Six hundred and thirty six (636) tons of iron Rails (that is to say Eighty ($80) dollars per ton) with in trust upon the same of said value from the 1st day of September 1862. To the time when the Confederate States shall remainder the occupancy and use of said Florida Branch Rail Road but if the said Atlantic and Gulf Rail Road Company shall be enabled to purchase the superstructure and appurtenances so laid or constructed by the Confederate States as aforesaid the Confederate States will in that event have as much of the iron Rail laid in the superstructure as aforesaid as will amount to a fair and equitable equivalent in recompense and return for the six hundred and thirty six (636) tons of iron Rails seized and taken by the Confederate States as aforesaid.

In witness whereof the said Major Minor Meriweather Commissioner on the part of the Confederate States of America and John Screven President of the said Atlantic and Gulf Rail Road Company have herewith set their hands the day and year first above written.

(Signed) Minor Merriweather
Major Engineer P.A.C.S.
Commissioner
John Screven
President of Atlantic & Gulf R.R. Co.

In presense of
D Macdonald
Not. Pub Chatham County
George P Screven

Transcription Notes:
Everything has been transcribed - except there were a few missing words, especially at the end of the document. Finished (Kf) John Screven, President of both the “Main Trunk” Atlantic & Gulf Railroad and the Savannah, Albany & Gulf Railroad; Mayor of Savannah; State Representative from Chatham County; a rice planter on the Savannah River; owner of Proctor Plantation, Beaufort, SC; owner of 91 enslaved people. ap·pur·te·nance an accessory or other item associated with a particular activity or style of living.