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NARA 615

REQUISITION:
Office Acting Assisant Quartermaster,
Meridian, Miss., June 29th, 1866.

The Mobile & Ohio 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. Hammil Quartermaster U.S Army at Nashville Tenn at at Contact rates.
Thomas H Norton
Bvt Maj USA [[strikethrough]] Lieut, 52nd U.S.C.I. & [[/strikethrough]] Acting Assistant Quartermaster.

Triplicate [[strikethrough]] Original [[/strikethrough]] Bill of Lading.
[See Note.]

Received from Bvt Maj Thos. H. Norton A.A.Q.M. United States Army , the following articles of public property, as specified, (contents and value unknown,) in apparent good order, to be forwarded to Lauderdale Miss by the Mobile & Ohio R.R. and connecting lines, there to be delivered in like good order and condition, unto Capt Rainals - - 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. | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| Captain Rainnals Lauderdale Miss | 13 | Barrels | Flour | 2808 | 
|   | 2 | Casks | Bacon | 690 | 
|   |   | Loose | Bacon | 50 |
|   | 2 | Sacks | Coffee | 41 | 
|   | 2 | Sacks | Rice | 120 | 
|   | 1 | Sacks | Salt | 50 | 
|   | 1 | Sacks | Sugar | 40 |
|   | 1 | Box | Soap | 60 |
|   | 1 | Box | Candles | 30 |
|   | 1 | Barrel | Potatoes | 190 |
|   | 1 | Barrel | Pork | 300 | 
|   | 1 | Barrel | Molasses 25 Gal | 300 |
|   |   |   |   | 4679 |

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.
E O Early Agt

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