FIRST ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

BOARD OF TRANSPORTATION

FOR THE

YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1887.

STATE OF NEBRASKA.

LINCOLN, NEB.:
JOURNAL COMPANY, STATE PRINTERS.

1888.

A.43288

CORNELL UNIVERSITY

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COMMISSIONERS' REPORT.

OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF TRANSPORTATION,
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, December 5, 1887.

To Hon. John M. Thayer, Governor of the State of Nebraska:
The undersigned, members of the Board of Railroad Commissioners,
a tribunal created by the Legislature of Nebraska at its session in
1885, which Board has since been abolished by the repeal of the act
creating it, and the substitution of the Board of Transportation, have
the honor to submit the following report of their doings for the year
ending June 30, A.D. 1887, as such Board of Railroad Commissioners:

The Board of Railroad Commissioners entertained and acted upon the following complaints during the year ending June 30, 1887:

No. 40.

Lars Nelson,

Complainant,

VS.

The U. P. R'y Co.,

Respondent.

The complaint alleged a failure to fence the right-of-way through the complainant's land. The company answered that the complainant had not enclosed his tract of land, and that under the law of the State, the company could not be required to fence its right-of-way at that point until complainant's tract was enclosed. The Board took the same view of the matter, and the complaint was dismissed.

No. 41.

J. B. Lemington,
Complainant,

VS.

The F., E. & M. V. R. R.,

Respondent.

Mr. Lemington complained that the company had killed a Holstein