To balances due from agents and conductors,
To balance due from companies and individuals,

Debit balance,

To cash,

To profit and loss,

Total,

B., H. & E. R. R. "Berdell

Bonds," converted into stock, 288,000.00

By funded indebtedness incurred for purchase of
property; secured by property purchased,
Mortgage note, Drake's wharf, $100,000.00
B. & A. R. R. note, 50-acre lot
South Boston flats,

Balance due Commonwealth

of Massachusetts,

300,000.00

986,532.00

Balance due Piper's wharf,
Balance due E. W. Clark &

Co. car trust (principal),

By interest unpaid,

By credit balances, notes payable,

1,652,174.92

228,056.98

80,000.00

First mortgage, due January 1, 1905, rate of in

terest, 7 per cent.,

$6,000,000.00

First mortgage, due January 1, 1905, rate of in

terest, 6 per cent.,

4,000,000.00

Second mortgage, due August 1, 1902, rate of in

Second mortgage, due August 1, 1902, rate of in

terest, 3 per cent.,

Interest on first mortgage paid to July 1, 1887, and on second mortgage paid to August 1, 1887.

$998,000.00

DESCRIPTION OF ROAD.

Date when road, or different portions thereof were opened for use, viz.:—

From Boston, Mass., to Putnam, Conn, 1855; from Putnam, Conn., to Willimantic, Conn, 1872; from Willimantic, Conn., to Hartford, Conn., 1849; from Hartford, Conn., to Bristol, Conn., 1850; from Bristol, Conn, to Waterbury, Conn., 1855; from Waterbury, Conn., to Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y., 1881; from Providence, R. I., to Willimantic, Conn, 1854; from East Thompson, Conn., to Southbridge, Mass., 1867; from Cook Street, Mass., to Woonsocket, R. I., 1863. Length of main line from Boston to Hopewell Junction,

215.04m.

Length of road (main line and branches) owned

by the Company,

Same in Connecticut,

325.77m.

172.32m.

Length of double-track road (in main line),

108.10m.

Length of track of road, including sidings, in sin

gle track miles,

559.55m.

Same in Connecticut,

287.10m.

Length of track laid with steel rails (weight per

yard,

lbs.,)

429.85m.

Same in Connecticut,

233.80m.

Miles of track laid with steel rails during the year (No. of tons, 2,787, weight per yard, 60 and 66 lbs., cost $72,826.09); increased mileage of steel No. of tons, 4,519 new steel, cost $49,593.04, replacing old steel and iron,

28.07m.

Number of new ties put in track during the year

Aggregate length of stone-arch bridges, in feet,

955

gates,

Same in Connecticut,

Number of highway crossings at grade, with flagmen,

Number of highway crossings at grade, with

Same in Connecticut,

Number of highway crossings at grade, with elec

tric signals,

Same in Connecticut,

Number of railroads crossed at grade, and names

of each,

Same in Connecticut,

Naugatuck Railroad at Waterbury; Hart-
ford & Conn. Valley Railroad at Hartford;
New Haven & Northampton Railroad at
Plainville; Shepaug Railroad at Hawley-
ville: Old Colony Railroad at Walpole
and Medfield; Housatonic Railroad at
Danbury; Norwich & Worcester Rail-
road at Webster, Putnam, and Plainfield;
Milford, Franklin & Providence Rail.
road at Bellingham; Providence &
Springfield Railroad at Providence; New
London Northern Railroad at Williman-
tic; New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad three times at Hartford and
once at New Britain.

Name, termini, and length of each road operated

by this Company under lease or contract:
Rhode Island & Massachusetts Railroad,

Franklin to Valley Falls,

13

13.60m.