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Letter from A. M. Dowling to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; January 28, 1864
Macon Miss. January 28, 1864
His Excellency Gov. Clark.
Present.
Dear Sir, in consequence of the delay in getting authority to Authorize the transpo=rtation of Cotton into the Federal lines, and to Sell the same as you had the right to have expected before this. and which nescessarily prevents you from being able to close any Contract for Cards for the State. and which has given me more time to examine into the matter, and finding the fall much longer, and the difficultly of procuring wagons & teams, either to purchase or hire, greater than I had Suppo[page torn] desire now to withdraw my former written proposition t[page torn] furnish the cards contemplated by the law, and in lieu thereof to propose as follows.
That I will take the Contract with the privilege of So hauling & Selling of Fifty Bales of cotton less than any other Contract offered and at the Same time furnish 5 percent more cards. Neverthe=less, for the purpose of facilitating the matter, as well as for the Sake of a division of resposibilites & propects of gain, I am willing to take one half of the best bid that is made, allowing the party making it the privilege of the ohter half—Thereby having two contractors, and of course two parties operating at the Same. I Should expect to give Bond & Satisfactory Security. and I would much prefer the State Treasury notes, to those of the Confederate States.
If no Satisfactory arrangements are made in a few days expect to take a trip to Georgia, but will expect to return in ample time to carry out & fulfil my propositions, or either of them as above Stated.
I am, very Resptfly, your Obt. Sevt.