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Auction: 18038 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 3165

Autographs
United States
Railroads
1880's a group of legal and other documents relating to the railways around Knoxville which includes the Marietta & North Georgia Railroad which includes an act for the leasing of penitentiary convicts for the construction of the railway and other documents relating to this; the Powell's Valley Railroad which includes a Geodetic Survey Map and documents referring to it's change of name; the Cumberland Gap Construction Company and the Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and Louisville Railroad. This offers a wealth of information into the runing of these companies.

The lot also includes a group of share certificates and bonds including Knoxville, Cumberland Gap & Louisville Railroad $100 shares (7) and $1000 bonds (4) with most counterfoils remaining); Chicago Great Western Railroad share certificates (3); Rock Island, Peoria & St. Loius $100 bond with most counterfoils remaining; Mexico North Western Railway certificates for ten shares (7). Also North Saskatchewan Land Company bonds for £20 (5) and £100 (2); the National Bituminous Coal and Coke Company bonds for $100 and $1000 (3) with most counterfoils; The Buffelsdoorn Estate & Gold Mining Company (of South Africa) share certificates (3) and Debito Pubblico del Regno d'Italia bond certificates (4) each with only one counterfoil removed in their original envelopes returned to the Italian embassy in London.

Convict leasing became very controvercial. In Georgia such leasing began in April 1868, when Union General and newly appointed provisional governor Thomas H. Ruger issued a convict lease for prisoners to William Fort for work on the Georgia and Alabama Railroad. Georgia ended the convict lease system in 1908

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Estimate
£600 to £800