Excerpt from Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Mobile and Ohio Rail Road Company, 1849 Resolved, That we recommend to the next Board of Directors, that they do commence the construction of the Rail Road from Mobile, as early as practicable, and that they proceed with it Northwardly as fast as the means at their disposal will permit, as proposed by the present Board in the resolutions published by them. 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.