Influence Of English Railway Legislation On Trade And Industry PDF Download

Excerpt from The Influence of English Railway Legislation of Trade and Industry: With an Appendix of Tracts and Documents It is now nearly twelve years since I first called the attention of the House of Commons to the defects of our system of legislation with regard to Railways. In common with most men, I was impressed with the immense importance of an invention which promised, in no long time, to supersede our accustomed means of communication; but I also saw that the community was exposed to serious evils from the legislature conceding to private Companies the powers required for making and working Railways, unaccompanied by such conditions and restrictions as were necessary to secure the public interests. This attempt to rouse the legislature to a proper sense of its duty - so that, while it was yet time we might guard against abuses pregnant with the most disastrous consequences - was not attended with the success on which I had some right to calculate. But, though baffled for the time, I was not discouraged. 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.