From the Richmond Dispatch, 3/11/1863, p. 2, c. 2

OFFICE R, F & P R R CO,
Richmond, March 11, 1863

AT A MEETING of the Board of Directors of this Company, held on the 9th day of March 1863, in consequence of the continued and unprecedented advance in the cost of all materials and supplies for this railroad, and in all the expenses of its operations, it was –

Resolved, That the rates of tolls now charged on freights transported over this road be further increased by one fourth of the rates fixed by the Tariff of Tolls established on the 1st day of May, 1858[?]; the rates so increased to take effect on and after the 14th of November, 1863.
                                                                                                                                                    SAM’L RUTH
                                                                                                                                                    Sup’t Transportation.
mh 11 – 6.

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