Excerpt from Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies, Vol. 1: Boston, St. Louis, Chicago, Cleveland; Transactions of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, the Engineer's Club of St. Louis, the Western Society of Engineers, and the Civil Engineers' Club of Cleveland; November, 1881, to October, 1882 On motion, the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, having expressed a disposition to join in the movement and appointed a committee, and hav ing also expressed their views in detail on the proposed forms of agree ment through their special committee, was considered to be represented and entitled to vote in case of disagreement on points specifically touched upon by their letters. 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.