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At the request of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road the following Agreement

was recorded Sept. 15 1833. This Agreement made this eleventh day of September in the year eighteen hundred and thirty two between Gerald B. Wager and the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road.... Now this agreement Witnesseth that the said parties of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of [Seven Thousand dollars] to the parties of the first part in hand paid by the party of the second part here to the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged and for and in consideration of the performance of the conditions and agreements herein after stipulated to be performed by the said parties of the second part do hereby grant bargain and sell

to the said parties of the second part so much

of the land and its appurtenance in part belonging to the said parties of the first part between the mouth of the Shenandoah River and the lower side of the abutment of the present bridge at Harpers Ferry on the Virginia shore as the said parties of the second may deem necessary

to start lay out and occupy for the

building thereon of an abutment of the said viaduct not exceeding thirty two feet in width on the road surface measured along the river with the direction of the viaduct at right angles west from the intersection of the present walls along the Potomac and Shenandoah and running back so far as to secure a proper foundation and support to said abutment and an easy and proper