Proceedings of the Convention of the Northern Lines of Railway: Held at Boston, in December, 1850, and January, 1851Yerrinton & son, printer, 1851 - 128 pages |
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adopted agreed ALVAH CROCKER amendment appointed arrangement Boston and Maine Business Committee called to order carried cars Central Board cents per mile Champlain and Boston CHARLES PAINE Cheshire Railroad competition now existing Concord Convention then adjourned Convention was called delegates DERBY Directors ERASTUS FAIRBANKS Excursion Trains expedient FAIRBANKS Fitchburg Railroad Fitchburg road Flour gentlemen GOODALL HIGGINSON moved Judge FOLLETT Judge GovE Judge UPHAM Lake Champlain lines LINSLEY low fares Lowell Railroad lower roads Maine Railroad meeting motion Nashua NATHAN RICE Northern Northern lines passengers Passumpsic road present rates President profit proposed proposition question rates of fare rates of freight referred Report Resolution Rutland and Burlington Rutland Railroad Rutland road S. M. FELTON Salma Hale stockholders Sullivan Railroad Sup't tariff THOMPSON thought tion trade Vermont and Massachusetts Vermont Central Railroad Vermont Central road Voted water communication Western Railroad Western road White River Junction WHITTEMORE Worcester York
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Page 22 - Corporation, have small souls, if any. We make solemn bargains with each other to be governed by certain principles and rules, and violate them the same day, by a secret bargain with an individual to obtain a small pittance of freight from another road. The people, seeing this, lose all respect for us...
Page 22 - ... small souls, if any. We make solemn bargains with each other to be governed by certain principles and rules, and violate them the same day, by a secret bargain with an individual to obtain a small pittance of freight from another road. The people, seeing this, lose all respect for us, and we seem to have none for ourselves; and they approach us to dicker with us, like jockies, without even thinking that we might deem it an insult. In this way we have already sunk our characters so low, that the...
Page 87 - Senate met pursuant to adjournment, and was called to order by the President. The Journal of yesterday was read and approved.
Page 58 - PM THIRD DAY-—AFTERNOON SESSION. The Convention was called to order by the President, but owing to the small number of delegates present, the debate on the morning's subject was not resumed.
Page 8 - LUPTON, it was voted that a committee be appointed by the President to prepare a message of greeting to the British Association, to be sent by cable.
Page 9 - Lothrop moved that a committee of conference be appointed on the part of the House...
Page 123 - It was further resolved that the secretary be directed to send a copy of the resolution to the bereaved family and spread same on the minutes.
Page 9 - ... the school room as a factor in the production of tuberculosis." ч [It was subsequently resolved by the Congress that a committee be appointed by the President to consider and report upon the amount of airspace and air per hour necessary in school rooms for the . maintenance of health.] APPENDIX S.— COUNTY Salary of Principal. Year of appointme nt No.
Page 69 - ... instructed him to ask leave to sit again. And leave was accordingly granted. A communication was received from the Secretary of State, covering an Abstract of the Returns of the population of the State in 1840 and 1850, &c. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed. Mr. CROWELL, of Dennis, moved that when the Convention adjourn, it adjourn to meet this afternoon at three o'clock. Mr. GRAY, of Boston, moved to substitute the hour of ten tomorrow. The question being upon the motion of Mr....