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NARA 612

REQUISITION:
Office Acting Assisant Quartermaster,
Meridian, Miss., June 4th 1866.

The Mobile & Ohio R Rd 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 Quartermaster U.S. Army at Nashville, Tenn. at government rates.
Thomas H. Norton
Bvt Maj 15 U.S. Inf [[strikethrough]] Lieut 52nd U.S.C.I. [[/strikethrough]] & Acting Assistant Quartermaster

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

Received from Bvt Maj. Thos. H. Norton, AAQM 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 & Ohio RRd. and connecting lines, there to be delivered in like good order and condition, unto Capt Henry E. Rainals, V.R.C. & A.A.Q.M. [[F.M.B.?]] Freight to be paid by the proper officer of the United States, at government rates and on "original bill of lading" only.

[[5 Columned Table]]
| Marks. | Numbers. | Packages, etc. | Contents. | Pounds Weight |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| US | 31 | Sacks | Oats | 4960. |
|   | 4 | Bales | Hay | 1600. |
|   |   |   |   | 6560. |
[[note]] Oats in Bad order [[/note]]

E O Early Agt
M & O RR

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

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