Report of the Committee on Railroads and Bridges, on the memorial of the president and directors of the European and North American Railway Company.

[Augusta, Maine?] : Wm. T. Johnson, Printer to the State, [1854]

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Document (Maine. Legislature. House of Representatives) ; 33rd Legislature, 1854, no. 34.

Report, and resolves entitled "Resolves asking assistance from the United States government, in behalf of the European and North American Railway." The resolutions indicate that the United States government has an interest in seeing the completion of the European and North American Railway as it will be involved in the transmission of the mail, which should be of interest to capitalists on both continents. A contract was secured in 1852 for the part of the line in the Province of New Brunswick. As noted in the report, "although, the work of construction is going forward in the lower Provinces, it is well understood that the comparative progress of these works will much depend upon the certainty of the early completion of the entire line from the city of Halifax to a point of connection with the railways of the United States and Canada; for, without the construction of the entire line, securing an uninterrupted mail route between New York and Halifax, thereby shortening the transit of mails between New York and London, the great object of the enterprise will not be reached." (Page 3).

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Print version: Maine. House. Railroads and Bridges Committee. Report of the Committee on Railroads and Bridges. [Maine] : [Wm T. Johnson], [1854?]

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Resolves asking assistance from the United States government, in behalf of the European and North American Railway.

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