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Excerpt from First Biennial Report of the Bureau of Industrial Statistics and Information of Maryland: 1884-1885 In accordance with the requirements of the Acts of 1884, Chapter 211, (a) I beg herewith to submit to your honorable body the accompanying report. On entering upon the discharge of my duties in this office I found the field almost untrodden, and the absence of previous inquiry proved a serious hindrance to the work and placed me at a disadvantage. I mean that while very much time and labor has been devoted to the collection and tabulation of industrial statistics which refer to the commerce and manufactures of the State of Maryland, and more especially to Baltimore City; and while the natural products, geographical situation, and means of transportation, etc., have been very exhaustively treated by able writers, yet such statistics refer more to products than producer, and to a great extent ignore such subjects as the average number of hands employed, the fluctuation of wages, the average time of labor, cost and condition of living, and similar important data, which it has been my endeavor in this report, as far as possible, to supply. Such references, therefore, as are herein made to the quantity of production, character of raw material, peculiarities of soil and climate, etc., are but incidental to the main object of my inquiry. 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.