Defence Of Oakes Ames Against The Charge Of Selling To Members Of Congress Shares Of The Capitol Stock Of The Credit Mobilier Of America

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Excerpt from Defence of Oakes Ames Against the Charge of Selling to Members of Congress Shares of the Capital Stock of the Credit Mobilier of America, With Intent to Bribe Said Members of Congress: Read in the House of Representatives Feb; 25, 1873 Early in September, 1865, it became manifest that the con tract could not be performed, and that the work must stop un less additional strength could be imparted to the corporation. Accordingly, after urgent solicitation and long consideration, myself and others associated with me for the first time took an interest in the organization. Its capital stock was in creased, additional money was raised, and the work went for ward. Under this arrangement two hundred and forty-seven miles of road were built, when on the 16th day of August, 1867, it was superceded by the Oakes Ames contract, so called, and this contract was on the 15th day of October, 1867, as signed to seven persons as trustees, and under it six hundred and sixty-seven miles of road were built. 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.

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