The Influence of English Railway Legislation of [!] Trade and Industry: With an Appendix of Tracts and DocumentsLongman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848 - 187 pages |
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... demand was altogether exceptional , and trade and industry could not carry on the struggle with it . The result is yet fresh in our recollections . Whole classes have been , as it were , decimated . Mercantile houses , ranking high in ...
... demand was altogether exceptional , and trade and industry could not carry on the struggle with it . The result is yet fresh in our recollections . Whole classes have been , as it were , decimated . Mercantile houses , ranking high in ...
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... demands that there should be no restrictions on Railway Companies . The Act for the Regulation of Railways , passed in 1842 , commonly known by the name of Lord Seymour's Act , had reference merely to matters of police , and modes of ...
... demands that there should be no restrictions on Railway Companies . The Act for the Regulation of Railways , passed in 1842 , commonly known by the name of Lord Seymour's Act , had reference merely to matters of police , and modes of ...
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... demand , with but few stipulations in favour of the pub- lic , and those of little value . But there was always a pro- bability that the legislature might one day awaken to a sense of its duties , and endeavour to make the stipulation ...
... demand , with but few stipulations in favour of the pub- lic , and those of little value . But there was always a pro- bability that the legislature might one day awaken to a sense of its duties , and endeavour to make the stipulation ...
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... demand be paid to the defaulter . The instances of forfeitures in Joint Stock Companies were rare , and never large in amount . It was only when new shares were issued for hundreds of thousands of pounds , that both law and custom were ...
... demand be paid to the defaulter . The instances of forfeitures in Joint Stock Companies were rare , and never large in amount . It was only when new shares were issued for hundreds of thousands of pounds , that both law and custom were ...
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... demand for amalgamation ought to have been taken advantage of , to insure better terms for the public . To obtain a reduction of fares was the only ground worth a moment's consideration for sanctioning an amalgamation and interfering ...
... demand for amalgamation ought to have been taken advantage of , to insure better terms for the public . To obtain a reduction of fares was the only ground worth a moment's consideration for sanctioning an amalgamation and interfering ...
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