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Durant, Lathrop & Co. correspondence, invoices and receipts, 1852-1856
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This memorandum of agreement between the Transportation Company known as Durant Lathrop & Co's [Line?] of the first part and Wadsworth & Sheldon on behalf of the Joliet and Northern Indiana Rail Road Company of the second part . Witnesseth That the said party of the first part agrees to receive at the Atlantic Dock Brooklyn and forward to Chicago Ills. about One thousand tons Rail Road Iron now in store at said Atlantic Dock Brooklyn at the rate of Six Dollars per ton of 2000 Two thousand pounds And the said party of the second part agrees to give the said Transportation Company the aforesaid Rail Road Iron amounting to about One thousand tons and to pay said company six dollars per ton freight thereon on the arrival and delivery of the said rails or any part thereof at Chicago Illinois on such Dock as may be designated by the agent of said Rail Road Co. The said Iron to be taken by the said transportation Co. from the Dock at Brooklyn and to be carried forward without any unnecessary delay by River Canal & sail on the Lakes And it is agreed that in case of loss of any portion of the Iron on the Lakes that the party of the first part shall be entitled to receive freight on the said Iron to Buffalo at the rate of Four Dollars per ton the dangers
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This memorandum of agreement between the Transportation Company known as Durant Lathrop & Co's [Line?] of the first part and Wadsworth & Sheldon on behalf of the Joliet and Northern Indiana Rail Road Company of the second part . Witnesseth That the said party of the first part agrees to receive at the Atlantic Dock Brooklyn and forward to Chicago Ills. about One thousand tons Rail Road Iron now in store at said Atlantic Dock Brooklyn at the rate of Six Dollars per ton of 2000 Two thousand pounds And the said party of the second part agrees to give the said Transportation Company the aforesaid Rail Road Iron amounting to about One thousand tons and to pay said company six dollars per ton freight thereon on the arrival and delivery of the said rails or any part thereof at Chicago Illinois on such Dock as may be designated by the agent of said Rail Road Co. The said Iron to be taken by the said transportation Co. from the Dock at Brooklyn and to be carried forward without any unnecessary delay by River Canal & sail on the Lakes And it is agreed that in case of loss of any portion of the Iron on the Lakes that the party of the first part shall be entitled to receive freight on the said Iron to Buffalo at the rate of Four Dollars per ton the dangers
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