Report of the Select Committee on Transportation-routes to the Seaboard, Parte2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1874 |
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... construction work was done , and paid for out of earnings and charged to expense account . The CHAIRMAN . What was the original issue of stock , if your report gives it ? Mr. LEWIS . The original issue of stock authorized was ...
... construction work was done , and paid for out of earnings and charged to expense account . The CHAIRMAN . What was the original issue of stock , if your report gives it ? Mr. LEWIS . The original issue of stock authorized was ...
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... construction , and until it was opened continu- ously from Harrisburgh to Pittsburgh , earned net revenues equal to 6 per cent . On its completion between these points as a single - track line , a balance was struck between the revenues ...
... construction , and until it was opened continu- ously from Harrisburgh to Pittsburgh , earned net revenues equal to 6 per cent . On its completion between these points as a single - track line , a balance was struck between the revenues ...
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... construction of the railroad between Harrisburgh and Pittsburgh , including branches to Indiana and Hollidaysburgh , ( in all 276 miles ; ) also , for cost of stations , warehouses , shops , and shop machinery on the whole road from ...
... construction of the railroad between Harrisburgh and Pittsburgh , including branches to Indiana and Hollidaysburgh , ( in all 276 miles ; ) also , for cost of stations , warehouses , shops , and shop machinery on the whole road from ...
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... construction , or what amount of a charge should be charged to repairs and what to construction . Different rail- roads have different methods . Some railroads charge all they can to construction , while others charge as little as they ...
... construction , or what amount of a charge should be charged to repairs and what to construction . Different rail- roads have different methods . Some railroads charge all they can to construction , while others charge as little as they ...
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... construction of the canals and their main- tenance , including the cost of the enlargement of the Erie and Oswego canals . The canals of New York have paid for themselves by their earnings , without costing the people of the State a ...
... construction of the canals and their main- tenance , including the cost of the enlargement of the Erie and Oswego canals . The canals of New York have paid for themselves by their earnings , without costing the people of the State a ...
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Página 661 - These are always, in a great degree, practical monopolies ; and a government which concedes such monopoly unreservedly to a private company, does much the same thing as if it allowed an individual or an association to levy any tax they chose, for their own benefit, on all the malt produced in the country, or on all the cotton imported into it.
Página 660 - Railways heretofore constructed or that may hereafter be constructed in* this State are hereby declared public highways, and shall be free to all persons for the transportation of their persons and property thereon, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law.
Página 278 - Q. How long have you been engaged in that business? — A. About 10 years.
Página 566 - ... from incumbrance, with a view to such legislation as will render the same free to commerce at the earliest practicable period, subject only to such tolls as may be necessary for the superintendence and repair thereof, which shall not, after the passage of this act, exceed five cents per ton.
Página 250 - Commission finds that a through rate charged from a point without the state to a point within the state, or from a point within the state to a point without the state...
Página 250 - That the said Railroad Commissioners are hereby authorized and required to make for each of the railroad corporations doing business in this State, as soon as practicable, a schedule of just and reasonable rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freights and cars on each of said railroads...
Página 661 - I have already more than once adverted to the case of the gas and water companieSj among which, though perfect freedom is allowed to competition, none really takes place, and practically they are found to be even more irresponsible, and unapproachable by individual complaints, than the government.
Página 230 - ... lands heretofore granted by Congress to the State of Wisconsin to aid in the construction of said water communication, which amount shall be deducted from the actual value thereof as found hy said arbitrators.
Página 661 - ... and their other local taxes. In the case of these particular services, the reasons preponderate in favour of their being performed, like the paving and cleansing of the streets, not certainly by the general government of the state, but by the municipal authorities of the town, and the expense defrayed, as even now it in fact is, by a local rate. But in the many analogous...
Página 566 - Treasury to carry this provision into effect is hereby appropriated : Provided, That after the United States shall assume control of said canal, the tolls thereon on vessels propelled by steam shall be reduced to twenty-five cents per ton, and on all other vessels in proportion.