Excerpt from Fifth Annual Report of the President and Directors to the Stockholders of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company, 1831 IN accordance with the regulations of the Company, I now present my second annual report, detailing the proceedings of this department for the last twelve months, and embracing such operations as will claim attention within the next year. Every effort has been made to realize the expectations which were formed, and the assurances that were given, that the road would be opened for travelling both to the Point Of Rocks on the Potomac river, and to the city of Frederick within the year 1831; and notwithstanding the generally unfavorable state of the season during the last autumn and the unusual severity of the winter, the work has been prosecuted with such activity that fully as much has been accomplished as was expected; leaving no reason to doubt but that the road will be Opened to those places with a double set of tracks on the first and second divisions, and with a single set of tracks on the other portions, within the time anticipated. The details of the proceedings of the Company since the last report, will be stated under the following heads. 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.