Macon County GaArchives News.....Emmett Hamilton February 24 1888
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The Marion County Patriot
The Marion County Patriot, No. 8
February 24, 1888
Page Three

Says the Montezuma Record: Emmett Hamilton has been appointed weigher of the 
mail on the Buena Vista & Ellaville railroad.  It requires thirty-four days to 
weigh the mails.  He has been promised a route agents place as soon as a 
vacancy occurs.

NOTE:
Harris Hill harrishill@starband.net
The abstract below was part an official settlement
for a court case where the railroad was trying to
recover add'l payment from the post office
department for carriage of the mails.  This is for
a case in the early 1900's in NJ, but it would
seem the RR was paid based on the average weight
of the mail carried and in disputes, the mail was
weighed for a period of 30 days.  This abstract
states that this weighing for 30 days was a
stautory requirement. Since this was the federal
gov't, one might expect that the requirement was
uniform anywhere in the US?


If I'm not mistaken the B.V. & E. (Buena Vista &
Ellaville) began seevice in 1884?  If so, then
they may have had a case with the post office over
payment by 1888.  I'd welcome some thoughts on
this theory.


Full post re the above case at:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl
?court=us&vol=249&invol=385


DELAWARE, L. & W. R. CO. v. UNITED STATES. No.
158.


Argued March 26, 1919. Decided April 14, 1919.



[249 U.S. 385, 386]   Messrs. Benjamin Carter and
F. Carter Pope, both of Washington, D. C., for
appellant.


Mr. Assistant Attorney General Frierson, for the
United States.



Mr. Justice HOLMES delivered the opinion of the
Court.


This is a petition to recover additional pay for
the carriage of the mails upon two routes from
July 1, 1907, to July 1, 1909-the claimant
alleging and the United States denying that it had
contracts at fixed rates for four years from July
1, 1905. The Court of Claims, without stating in
terms what the contracts were, set forth the
transactions that fixed the relations of the
parties, and rejected the claims. Under the
statutes in force at the time a maximum price per
mile was fixed with reference to the average
weights carried by the railroad. This average was
ascertained by weighing the mails for thirty days
once in four years. The quadrennial weighing for
the two routes concerned (from Hoboken to Buffalo
and from Hoboken to Denville, New Jersey) took
place in the spring of 1905, upon a notice from
the Post Office Department that it was in order to
obtain the data for adjusting the pay from July 1,
1905, to June 30, 1909.


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