Excerpt from Official Proceedings at the Dedication of the Statue of Daniel Webster: At Concord, New Hampshire, on the 17th Day of June, 1886 Whereas, A contract has been negotiated with Thomas Ball, who is now in Europe, for furnishing said statue for the sum of with the cost of transportation added, to be completed, if practicable, as early as November, 1885. 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.