Excerpt from Twelfth Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioner of the State of Virginia, 1888: Published Pursuant to Law The twelfth annual report of this office embraces a period of only nine months, for the reason that the Code of 1887 changed the date on which the sev eral corporations make their annual reports to me, from the 3oth day of September, to the 3oth of June. This change necessarily creates some confusion in this report. 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.