The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-02-09

the United States mails, and freights, are to
be put on for the business Of the roads
6eiaceen Richmond and Washington, and
paid for or provided and maintained by the
above contracting companies in the ratio
Of the distance beforecn the said point Of
connection dnd the said station an W'9rshisag-
ton. on the one hand, and that between the
said point of connection and the Richmond
station of the Richmond, Fredericksburg
and Potomac Railroad Company on the
other hand.
2. In cases where rates of charge for fare
and freight and the United States mail be-
tween Richmond and Washington, or for
intermediate distances, are agreed on be-
tween the above contracting parties, the
sums received for the same are to be appor-
toned between the above contracting par
ties in the ratio of the distances travelled
on their respective lines. In default Of
rates of fare and freight charged shall be
the aggregate of those charged by the two
parties to this contract for the distances
travelled on their respective lines.
3. Such tickets as the above contracting
companies may from time to time agree on
are to be made for passengers to points
north, or northwest, or northeast of Wash.
ington, and to points south, or southwest,
or southeast OF Richmond, and freightS are
to be taken in connection anith other COM
pames to points north, OF northwest, or
northeast of Washington, and south, or
southwest, or southeast of Richmond, and
with companies connecting with either the
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
| or Alexandria and Fredericksburg rail-
! roads, at any intermediate points on the
respective roads of the contracting parties,
where such freights are taken ever the
roads of the two companies between Rich
mond and Washington, or portions of the
same, at the rates of charge from time to
time agreed on between them, or the aggre.
gate of their respective charges, as the case
may be, with such allowance of mileage on
the freight cars of other companies and pro-
visions for their maintenance in proper con-
dition rs may he SalistactOryrtO the above
contracting parties.
| !. On completion ofthe Baltimore and Po-
tomac railroad to its terminus, at or near
Pope's creek, the Richmond, Fredericks-
burg and Potomac Railroad Company are
TO connect with the same in both directions,
by the steamboats, of the Potomac Steam
boat Company, and the charges between
> Baltimore and Richmoud, or between ill.,
tcrmediate points on this route, by the
railroads OF the two companies and the
steamboat line of the Potomac Steamboat
Company are to be made either by agree
ment or by an addition Of the local rates of
each of the companies and il, by agree
ment, the fare received between points, one
of which is Oh the line of each railroad, is
to be divided between the companies in
terested an proportion to the distance trau-
eIed on each.
This agreement is to continue -- years
from its date, unless within that period the
construction of Il line Of railroad should be
actually commenced in Virginia east of the
Orange and Alexandria railroad, parallel
to the Alexandria and Fredericksburg, or
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
railroad. In that case this contract may be
terminated at the option Of the company
to whose railroad Il parallel railroad Is be-
ing constructed, on giving - months
notice TO the other companies, parties to
this contract.
City Of Philadelphia, to wit
Personally appeared before me, an alder
man in and for the city of Philadelphia, this
ID day of February, 1870, Moncure Robin.
son, Il resident of sad city, who, being
sworn on the Holy Eyangellsts, made oath
that the within writing is Il literal copy,
erord for rord, of 4 proposed agree
ment,' now in his possession, read to
Mcs>rs. Thomas a. Scott and George Is.
Roberts, ut his house, III Philadelphia, rs
one which he was willing to recommend
and vote for individually and as the repre-
sentative OF all The other stockholders in
the Richmond. Fredericksburg and POto-
mac. Rail- Dad Company whose proxies were
held by him, but the same was objected to
by both MeSSrs. Scott and Roberts, espe-
ctaliy by Mr.. Roberts, and copy not asked
for nv them tn eth of them.
TSgned, MoxCUnE ROBINSON.
Sworn and subscribed before me this I'd
day OF February, A. ID. 1871.
| [sisned,l GEO. .PATcuEL, Alderman,
[Seal.]
l, John NJ. Davis, Clerk of the Commit
tee on Roads and internal Navigation OF
the Senate of Virginia, do hereby certify
that the foregoing "proposed agreement"
on the reverse side Of one page of which
the foregoing affidavit is written and certi-
tied to, is u true copy of one which was
read before the said committee at the in
stance and III response to an inquiry of one
of its members OH the I'd of this month by
the president OF the Richmond, Frede
ricksburs and Potomac Railroad Company,
in the presence and hearing Of MIR. q. b,
Roberts, one Of the Yice-presidents Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, who then
and there stated to the committee that he
had never seen or heard of the said pro-
posed agreement until Il copy Of it was on
che 9th of January last, 1871, offered in evil
dence by the said president of the Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Rail
road Company before the Committee on
| Roads, &C., of the House of Delegates of
| Virginia. John NJ. DAVIS. Clerk, Sc: