Excerpt from Railways in the United States: Their History, Their Relation to the State, and an Analysis of the Legislation in Regard to Their Control; 1839-1901 In his study of corporations, Mr. Sterne gave special attention to the problems connected, on the one hand, with the management of railroads and with the relation of railroads to the shareholders. 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.