Excerpt from Biennial Report of the Railroad Commissioner of the State of Vermont, for 1877-78 Your Railroad Commissioner has the honor to submit his report concerning the operation of railroads in the State, their condition, and the condition of their carriages, engines, and equipage, and also such. Changes in their condition, so far as the same could be ascertained, for the two years ending June 30th, 1878, as required by Sections 121, 122, and 123, Chapter 28 of the General Statutes. The events of the past two years (our centennial years) have been in some respects the most remarkable in the history of this country, and that which relates to the history of the railroads of this country has been the most startling and important, and my report would not be complete without referring to some of the most important of these events. Early in the year of 1877 the country was startled by the report of the Ashtabula accident, when a fearful storm was raging scores of men, women and children were precipitated down into the river. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Biennial Report of the Railroad Commissioner of the State of Vermont: For 1881 82 This matter having been left to the commissioner to establish in conformity with the several other states, your commissioner, four years ago, after corresponding with the commissioners of other states, prepared a blank somewhat similiar to the one approved by the convention of railroad commissioners, held at Saratoga in June, 1879, when this very question was under consideration and thoroughly discussed by the various members Of the convention, many of them having had large experience in railroad affairs and who had made this subjects study for years. The blanks thus prepared had been in use but two years when I came into office and, as the roads had but so recently began to keep their accounts in conformity with them, it seemed better to me to make no radical. Change in the form of questions, and I have used the same form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.