Extracts From The Report Of The Us Pacific Railway Commission 1888 PDF Download

Excerpt from Extracts From the Report of the U. S. Pacific Railway Commission, 1888 It is no answer to the Government that the managers of these companies did only that which the managers of railroads in other sections did. These lines were built upon public credit. They were public highways in the broadest sense of that term. The managers were acting as trustees of a national highway, and they can not plead any law ful justification for making false affidavits, which state that of stock was actually paid for, when in fact less than two millions had been so paid for. 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.