James N. Tyner to D. Fraser

Notations in top margin:

No. 2 with D.V. Bell letter 7/4/65; with James N. Tyner letter 11/4/65; with James N. Tyner letter 8/7/65; with James N. Tyner letter 11/24/65; with J.N. Sweet letter 12/9/65

Peru, Ind. , Aug 7th 1865

Sir:

The Department has directed me to arrange with the [south?] agents between Toledo and Quincy to meet at Lafayette hereafter instead of State Line. The arrangement will commence on Friday next, the 11th inst. Let the Wabash agent who gets to the Line on Thursday return to Lafayette that evening on the express train, and start east from there the next morning; and you will please request the agent on the Great Western, who will leave Quincy Thursday evening, to run to Lafayette Friday morning.

The order is for the Western agents to run from Quincy to Lafayette, and for the Eastern agents to run from Toledo to Lafayette. You will please notify me by letter, directed to Indianapolis, as soon as you shall have perfected the arrangement.

Until recently, I believe the Gr. Western agents divided at Springfield. That was changed, I learn, by direction of Spl. Agent Bell,

of Chicago, and is, I think, the proper arrangement; but if the agents think otherwise, they can present their views in a letter to Bell or me, giving the reasons for desiring to divide at Springfield instead of running to Lafayette. They can arrange with Judge Bell to run two off and two on; provided the agents who are resting will always be in telegraphic communication so as to supply deficiencies in case of accidents. I will now give my consent to their resting two at a time on the conditions above mentioned.

Report to me as soon as you confer with the agents.

Very Respectfully,

James N. Tyner Special Agt. P.O. Dept.

D. Frazer, P.M. State Line Ind. No. 2