Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Government, Presented to the Board at the Annual Meeting: On the 17th of January, 1855 The Government of the Boston Board of Trade have the pleasure of placing before the members an account of proceedings upon the principal subjects which have engaged their attention since the organization of the Board. At the regular meeting in November, a Report was made embracing many of these subjects, and the short time which has elapsed since has furnished them with but little new to communicate at the present time. They deem it proper, however, on occasion of the Annual Meeting, to review what has been done and to give you some idea of the plan which it is proposed to pursue in order to accomplish the end for which our Board was incorporated. 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.