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UNION AUTHORITIES.
as may be necessary to produce harmonious and satisfactory results
in the business relations of the Government with the railroads of the
United States.
SPECIAL CLASSIFICATION.
First class.-Drums (twice first class), haversacks, canteens, camp-
kettles and mess-pans, wagon covers, furniture and camp stools,
hard bread, powder in barrels, buckets, clothing.
Second class.-Gun carriages, caissons, forges and light artillery
mounted, wagons and ambulances, loaded car twenty-eight feet in
length, estimated at 12,000 pounds, other lengths of cars in propor-
tion. Tents and tent-poles, sabers in boxes. Cattle and horses,
reckoned at 18,000 pounds to a load for a car twenty-eight feet long,
and other sizes of cars in proportion.
Third class.-Fixed ammunition, small-arms ammunition, Sibley-
tent stoves.
Fourth class.-Cannon and mortars not mounted, cannon-balls and
shells, lumber and timber, flour, beef, pork, hay (hay reckoned at
18,000 pounds to a car-load).
:No. 11.
QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington City, May 1, 1862.
SIR: The following regulations, in accordance with the recom-
mendations of the convention of railroad managers assembled in this
city by invitation of the Secretary of War, have been adopted by
this department, for the guidance of its officers in the settlement of
accounts with railroad and transportation companies, for the trais-
portation of troops and supplies. The rates went into operation on
the 3d of March, 1862.
Regiments or portions of regiments to be transported by the short-
est practicable route, at 2 cents per man per mile; eighty pounds of
baggage to be allowed to each man, including those things ordinarily
carried by a soldier, in heavy-marching order, among which are for-
age, provisions, baggage, equipments, camp and garrison equipage,
and tents. Any excess over eighty pounds to a man to be expressly
stated as such excess, and charged at second-class rates, exclusive of
horses, wagons, and heavy ordnance accompanying troops, which are
to be charged according to the classification hereinafter specified.
The military tariff is to be 10 per cent. below the printed local and
through freight tariffs of the various companies in force at the time
of the service; said tariffs to be furnished with each account to be
examined, and no charge to be allowed exceeding the following maxi-
mum limits, even though the local tariffs may be at higher rates:
First class.-On short roads and for distances not exceeding fifty
miles, the maximum charge to be 5 cents per ton per mile; for dis-
tances over fifty miles and not exceeding eighty-three miles, the maxi-
mum charge not to exceed $2.50 per ton for the entire distance; for
eighty-three miles and over, the maximum charge to be 3 cents per
ton per mile.
Second class.-On short roads and for distances not exceeding fifty
miles, the maximum charge to be 41 cents per ton per mile; for dis-
tances over fifty and not exceeding eighty-two miles, the maximum
charge not to exceed $2.25 per ton for the entire distance; for eighty-
two miles and,over, the maximum charge to be 21 cents per ton per
mile.839
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United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 2., book, 1899; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth139264/m1/848/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.