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Brockton & East Bridgewater (consolidated with the Brockton),

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Boston, Milton & Brockton (consolidated with the Brockton),
Dighton, Somerset & Swansea (consolidated with the Globe),
Gloucester (consolidated with the Lynn & Boston),

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Providence & Taunton (consolidated with the Taunton),
Quincy & Boston (consolidated with the Brockton),
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Floating Debt.

The amount of real estate mortgages outstanding September 30, 1900, was $15,400-a decrease of $17,000 from the preceding year.

The total unfunded debt, including the above mortgages, was $11,718,778-a decrease of $252,470.

The gross debt, funded and unfunded, was $46,091,778-an increase of $4,192,030.

The net debt (the gross debt less $10,347,849 of cash and current assets) was $35,743,929-a decrease of $132,142. In computing the net debt, the sum of $4,854,285 returned under the head of "miscellaneous assets," covering materials and supplies on hand, etc., is not included with cash and current assets in the deduction from gross debt.

The funded debt, unfunded debt, gross debt, cash and current assets, and net debt, for each of the last ten years, are shown in the following table:

Funded, Unfunded, Gross and Net Debt, 1891–1900.

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$7,316,500 $4,340,316 $11,656,816 $3,713,164|| $7,943,652 9,970,150 5,234,128 15,204,278 3,932,490 11,271,788 14,109,000 9,597,113 23,706,113 2,939,010 20,767,103 19,188,000 6,861,020 26,049,020 3,825,887 22,223,133 22,284,500 5,165,896 27,450,396 2,428,150 25,022,246 ||

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During the year ending September 30, 1900, the Board authorized and approved, under chapters 316 of the Acts of 1889 and 462 of the Acts of 1894, issues of bonds by the companies, and for the amounts, named in the following table.

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NOTE. - Issues of bonds, in addition to the above, authorized by the Board from October 1, 1900, to December 31, 1900, inclusive, will be found in the Appendix.

VOLUME OF TRAFFIC.

The total number of passengers carried during the last year on the railways of the one hundred and eighteen companies making returns to the Board, was 395,027,198-an increase of 38,302,985 passengers over the previous year.

The total number of miles run by street cars was 81,750,768 - an increase of 8,383,533 miles over the previous year. The total number of round trips run was 7,818,427-an increase of 713,584 in number of round trips. The average number of passengers carried per round trip was 51 one more than in

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The following table gives the total volume of traffic, itemized as above, for each of the last ten years:

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In the following table the growth of traffic is compared with the increase of mileage for the last eight years:

Comparative Increase of Railway Mileage and Volume of Traffic.

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appears that while the railway mileage has increased 153 per cent, or more than doubled in the last eight years, there has been a gain of only 103 per cent in the number of passengers carried.

There has been an increase of passenger traffic for the last eight years of 200,855,000 passengers, or an average of a little over 25,100,000 a year, or an increase of about 13 per cent a year in passenger traffic for the period.

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