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S437.   O.A.A.C.  1865

Office A.& G.R.R.
Savannah Ga. Dec 13/65
G63 (R.F. & A.L.  Vol 2 1865
Scriven John 
President  

[[stamp]  THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]

Claims 636 tons of iron rails on behalf of the A. & G.R.R. on the track of the Florida Branch R.R.

Submits important facts showing that the U.S. holds rightful claim to say. 18 miles or about 1500 tons of the rail on the Ga. section of the Florida Branch R.R. the amount being exclusive of the 636 tons claimed.

States that the Georgia section of the Road is 25½ miles in length extending to the Florida boundary was graded by his company, but the Road bed was abandoned temporarily in 1862 in consequence of impossibility of obtaining iron to lay track, the Confederate Gov funding the connection 

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important for military purposes obtained use of the Road and completed it in January 1865.

Rails used for track seized from Brunswick & Florida R.R. for which said company received full compensation and arbitrament.

J.W. Spratt, non Contractor on the reconstruction of A. & G.R.R. is said to be a witness to the final payment of money to the Presd. or agt. of the B. & F.R.R. for the seized iron and it is said that a portion at least of the monies received for the iron was issued in cotton for the Confederacy.

The circumstances show that the Govt. of the U.S. is now rightful owner of the rail laid on the Florida Branch as captured property of the Confederate States.

These circumstances may not be true but seems to be sufficiently suggestive that the  B.&F.R.R. Co. should not be allowed to remove this iron until these rights are clear.

Adds that the iron on the Florida branch is at present useless as the whole of the iron on Florida side is, or partially on record by its rightful claimants and should be permitted to the take away the 636 tons he applies for it can work no immediate harm.

Transcription Notes:
Screven is the pres of the railroad, but the clerk misspelled it as Scriven.