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NARA 597

REQUISITION:
Office Acting Assisant Quartermaster,
Meridian, Miss. May 3rd. 1866.

The Mobile & Ohio RR and connecting lines will, without delay, furnish transportation for the public property specified below, from Meridian Miss to Lauderdale Miss the freight to be paid by Capt S B Hamill Quartermaster U. S. Army at Nashville Tenn at contract rates.
Alfr. Hedberg
1st. Lieu [[strikethrough]] t. [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] U.S. [[strikethrough]] C. [[/strikethrough]] & Acting Assistant Quartermaster.

[[strikethrough]] ORIGINAL [[/strikethrough]] Duplicate BILL OF LADING.
[See Note.]

Received from A Hedberg Lieut & AAQM United States Army, the following articles of public property, as specified below, (content and value unknown,) in apparent good order, to be forwarded to Lauderdale Miss by the Mobile & Ohio RR and connecting lines, there to be delivered in like good order and condition, unto Capt Henry W Rainals AQM Freight to be paid by the proper officer of the United States, at contract rates, and on "original bill of lading" only.

[[5 Columned Table]]
| Marks. | Numbers. | Packages, etc. | Contents. | Pounds Weight. | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| Henry W Rainals Capt & AAQM Lauderdale Miss | 5 | Bales | Hay | 20.00 | 
|   | 1 | Sacks | Oats | 18.00 | 
|   | 40 | Assorted | Skillets | 140 |
|   | 1 | Cask | Bacon | 369 | 
|   | 1 | Sack |  Bacon | 84 | 
|   | 1 | [[?]]an. Desict | Potatoes | 30 | 
|   | 1 | Sack | [[?]] | 1.00 |
|   | 3 | Bbls | Flour | 648 |
|   | 1 | Sack | Sugar | 56 |
|   | 1 | Sack | Salt | 120 |
|   | 1 | Sack | Sundries | 22 | 

Note. - Duplicate and triplicate Bills of Lading to be copies of the original, except the substitution and duplicate on the face, and omitting the indorsements on the back of the duplicate; all printed in black.
A Sheffield Agent

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