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Requisition:
Office Acting Assistant Quartermaster,
Meridian, Miss. May 20th 1866.
The Mobile and Chir. R. R. 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.
[[?]] Hidberg. 
1st Lieut 15' U.S. I. & Acting Assistant Quartermaster. 
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Duplicate [[strikethrough]] ORIGINAL [[strikethrough/]] BILL OF LADING. 
(See Note.)
Received from Alfred Hedberg Luiet A.A.Q.M United States Army,the following articles of public property as specified below, (contents and value unknown,) in apparent good order, to be forwarded to Lauderdale Miss by the Mobile and Chir. R.R. and connecting lines, there to be delivered in like good order and condition, unto Capt. H. E. Rainalls. 
A.A. G. M
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.|
|E.B Wright|6|Wash - Tubs|-|125|
|Lauderdale|6|Wash - Brands|-|25|
|Miss|1|Box|Hospital Supplies|51|
Total 201 lbs

Note. - Duplicate and triplicae 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.