BOSTON AND LOWELL RAIL-ROAD. INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT. Balance of interest account charged to expenses. Cost of rail iron for repairs charged with rail iron for construction, and now transferred to its proper head. Depreciation in value of engines and cars. Advance on 600 shares new stock sold at auction for account of the Corporation. The cost of a share on the 30th of November, 1835, when the first annual settlement of accounts was made after the opening of the road, including interest at six per cent. on the assessments from the time they were laid, and deducting the dividend paid for the fraction of that year, amounted to $540 75, or almost exactly eight per cent. advance on the par value. Since then, in the nine years which have followed, the dividends have averaged 7 per cent. on the par value of the shares. All which is respectfully submitted by GEO. W. LYMAN, WM. APPLETON, Directors. BOSTON, November 30th, 1844. SUFFOLK, ss., on the 26th Dec. 1844, the above named Joseph Tilden and John Bryant; on the 27th Dec., 1844, the above named George W. Lyman and William Appleton; and on the 28th Dec., 1844, the above named John A. Lowell, severally appeared and made oath that the foregoing statement by them subscribed was true, according to the best of their knowledge and belief. Before me, MOSES L. HALE, Justice of the Peace. TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOSTON AND MAINE RAIL ROAD. To the Honorable Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: The Directors of the Boston and Maine Rail-road do hereby make the Tenth Annual Report of their acts and doings, receipts and expenditures. Since their last annual report, the Boston and Maine Rail-road, and the Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts Rail-road Corporation have been united by the acceptance of the various acts passed for that purpose by the Legislatures of Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, on the part of the stockholders of the two corporations. The total amount of the capital stock of the Boston and Maine Rail-road paid in on Nov. 30, 1844, including the capital stock of the Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts Rail-road Corporation, now united with the Boston and Maine Rail-road, Of this sum there has been received during the year $1,240,441 76 102,929 00 60 00 1,641 16 $104,630 16 Amount expended for the construction of the road in Amount expended for the construction of the road in $505,907 76 798,616 74 Maine, Cost of engines and cars, Total, Of these amounts there has been expended in Massachusetts during the past year, Expended during the same period in New Hampshire, 65,182 12 115,754 31 $1,485,460 93 $7,253 98 12,107 53 1,528 80 16,867 58 $37,757 89 The other expenditures of the corporation during the year ending Nov. 30, 1844, have been as follows: The income of the corporation during the year ending Nov. 30, 1844, has been as follows: A dividend of three dollars per share has been de- $39,708 00 Total, 46,693 50 $86,401 50 The number of miles run by locomotive engines over the Boston and Maine Rail-road during the same period of time, was as follows: In addition to the above, the trains of this corporation have run over the Boston and Lowell Rail-road, drawn by their locomotives, as follows: Passenger trains, . Merchandise trains, Total, The passenger trains of this corporation have run over the Portland, Saco and Portsmouth Rail-road, in connexion with the trains of that Co., . 47,728 mls. All which is respectfully submitted, THO. WEST, JOHN HOWE, THADDEUS NICHOLS, T. FARRAR, WM. F. WELD, R. W. BAYLEY, Directors of Boston and Maine Rail-road. BOSTON, January 15, 1845. |