Excerpt from The Thirty-Fourth Annual Report of the Trade and Commerce of Chicago: For the Year Ending December 31, 1891 Note-during 1848 and 1849 the Board was a voluntary organization; from 1850 to 1859 it was organized under a general Incorporation law of the State. Since early in 1859 it has remained under a special charter granted by the Legislature in February of that year. 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.