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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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[MINORITY REPORT]3
[THE BILL]12
[SPEECH]24
[EFFORTS TO REDUCE THE TRANSPORTATION TAX.]29
[THE EFFECT IN OUR EXISTING SYSTEM.]31
[THE RELATIVE ADVANTAGES OF BOSTON AND NEW YORK.]34
[THE EFFECT ON THE STATE OF MAKING BOSTON AN EXPORTING CITY.]36
[THE HOOSAC TUNNEL.]37
[POSITION OF THE COMMITTEE.]39
[THE BILL OF THE MAJORITY.]40
[REGULATION BY SPECIAL LEGISLATION.]46
[CONTROL OF THE TUNNEL.]48
[THE PURPOSES OF THE MINORITY.]50
[THE MINORITY BILL.]51
[THE EFFECT OF STATE CONTROL OF THE TUNNEL LINE.]53
[THE POPULAR FEELING IN FAVOR OF STATE CONTROL.]54
[SAFETY OF THE EXPERIMENT.]55
[THE ALLEGED DANGER OF POLITICAL CORRUPTION.]58
[STATE PENSIONERS.]63
[THE BENEFITS OF THE PROPOSED PLAN.]64

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House of Representatives, April 23, 1873.

The undersigned, members of the Committee on Railways, to whom was referred "An Act to provide for the Consolidation of the Hoosac Tunnel line of Railroads from Boston to Troy," and the petition of the Boston and Lowell Railroad Company for amendment of the charter of the Great Northern Railroad, and many petitions and remonstrances relative to the disposal of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel, respectfully submit a

MINORITY REPORT:

The Committee, after public notice to all parties in interest, commenced its hearings upon the subject-matter of these petitions on the twenty-ninth day of January, and finally closed them on the twenty-first day of March. Under the authority granted by the legislature, a reporter was employed by the Committee, by whom It verbatim report was made of all the testimony and arguments submitted to the Committee. This has been printed for the use of the Committee and of the legislature, and is now accessible to members.