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Adams Express Company. 
GREAT EASTERN WESTERN AND SOUTHERN EXPRESS FORWARDERS.
RICHMOND, VA. Mar 17th 1866

Form 5.
$35.65
Received from Capt Bates
One Pcl Sealed and said to contain Thirty Five 60/100 Dols.

ADDRESSED Luther C. Perry
Ft. Monroe

Upon the special acceptance and agreement that this Company is to forward the same to its agent nearest or most convenient to destination only, and there to deliver the same to other parties to complete the transportation-such delivery to terminate all liability of this Company for such package: and also, that this Company are not to be liable in any manner, or to any extent, for any loss, damage, or detention of such package, or of its contents, or of any portion thereof, occasioned by the acts of God, or by any person or persons acting or claiming to act in any military or other capacity in hostility to the Government of the United States or occasioned by civil or military authority, or by the acts of any armed or other mob or riotous assemblage, piracy, or the dangers incident to a time of war, now when occasioned by the dangers of railroad transportation, or ocean or river navigation, or by fire or stream. In no event is this Company to be liable for a greater sum than that above mentioned nor shall it be liable for any such less unless the claim therefore shall be made in writing, at this office, within thirty days from this date, in a statement to which this receipt shall be annexed. 

FREIGHT.
FOR THE COMPANY, Johnson