Excerpt from Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the North Pennsylvania Railroad Company, With the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of Stockholders and the Report of the Chief Engineer: January 12, 1857 Mr. John Welsh, President of the Company, then submitted and read the annual report of the Board of Directors. 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.