Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the State of New York, for the Year 1883: Transmitted to the Legislature, January 10, 1884 The bureau has been duly organized and is now in active opera tion, with quarters in the New Capitol building, at the city of Albany. 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.