Excerpt from Report of the Commission to Investigate the Affairs of the Western Maryland Railroad Company and the Interest of the City Therein, to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore: Together With the Reports of Stephen Little, Expert Accountant, and H. T. Douglas, Expert Engineer, Employed by the Commission to Aid in the Investigation; May 5th, 1893 The joint resolution referred to expressly directs that the scope of said examination shall extend to the physical condition and equipment of said road, and into its prospective commercial advantages to the City under its present management, and empowers the Commission to employ such expert and clerical assist ance as it may deem proper in said investigation. 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.