Mobile Advertiser & Register

June 7, 1861

Notice.

            THIS COMPANY having accepted the terms made by the Government of the Confederate States for the transportation of Troops, Provisions, and Munitions of War, hereafter no Soldiers will be transported except in accordance with the orders of the authorized officers actually in the service of the Confederate States, the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee or Kentucky.

            Conductors and Agents will required all Soldiers desiring to travel under the contract made with the Government, to exhibit the order of the Quartermaster or other authorized officer, which must state distinctly that they are traveling on official business.

            All others without this official authority must pay the usual fare.

            All applications for the Transportation of Companies must be addressed to the undersigned at Mobile, and state the number of men, the Stations they are to be taken from and delivered at, the day they desire to go, and be made at least four days before that time.

            These regulations have become necessary in consequence of the number of Companies asking transportation and the great number of individuals applying for free passage without any claim whatever.

            Soldiers traveling on Furlough will not be passed free.

L. J. FLEMING.

Chief Engineer and General Superintendent.