ANNUAL REPORTS

OF THE

RAIL-ROAD CORPORATIONS

IN THE

STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS

FOR

1845.

Boston:

DUTTON AND WENTWORTH, PRINTERS,

No. 37, Congress Street.

1846.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

LITTAUER LIBRARY

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Presented to Harv. Coll. Library

by Geo. Henne Whitman

део

Billerica

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of his Classmate, Felton- being from

of Statistics of Mags. Railroads,

their

opening.

in 1834 to 185

1857.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

IN SENATE, Feb. 5th, 1846.

The Committee on Railways and Canals, to which have been committed the Annual Reports of the Rail-road Corporations, Report, that Reports have been made by all the Rail-road Corporations in the Commonwealth which are required by law to make them, and they recommend that 1500 copies of said Reports be printed for the use of the Legislature.

SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

BERKSHIRE RAIL-ROAD

CORPORATION.

To the Hon. Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in General Court assembled :

THE Directors of the Berkshire Rail-road Company beg leave to submit their Seventh Annual Report, of their acts and doings, receipts. and expenditures, during the year ending December 31st, 1845.

On the first Monday of January, 1845, being the day of their annual meeting, the stockholders chose five directors, and the directors appointed a treasurer and clerk.

The terms of the contract of transportation between this corporation and the Housatonic Rail-road Company, a copy of which was annexed to their fourth annual report, have been strictly complied with in all respects, particularly the payment of the seven per cent. on their capital stock of $250,000 00

On October 13th, 1815, the stockholders passed a resolve authorizing the sale of their own stock, then held and pledged for the payment of the debt of the company, incurred principally in the construction of their road, and from that source the treasury has realized the sum of

Making the whole receipts for the year 1845,

$46,033 74 64,033 74

These sums have been applied to the payment of the debt; and that debt, at this time, is very nearly extinguished. As soon as the small balance of indebtedness is discharged, the annual income above stated will be again applied to the payment of dividends, either quarterly or semi-annually, as may be deemed best by the directors.

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