Excerpt from Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the National Board of Trade: Held in Washington, January 1886 Annual Report of the Executive Council, Election of Officers, Debate on American Shipping Interests, Report on a National Bankrupt Law, second day Debate on Reciprocity Treaties, Action on Silver Coinage, Debate on Harbor Defence, Debate on the Protection of Harbors and Rivers, Debate on Local Taxation on Commercial Travellers, Debate on the Improvement of the Columbia River, Debate on the Warehouse System, Debate on Drawbacks on Duties Returned, Debate on a Department of Commerce, third day Paper on an Uniform Standard of Grain Measure, Action on the Undervaluation of Merchandise, Report on inter-state Commerce, Debate on inter-state Commerce, Resolution Relating to the Exportation of Pork, Resolution Relating to a Department of Commerce, Debate on Postal Telegraph, Resolution Relating to Consular Certificates, Resolution Relating to Electoral Disputes, Adjournment. 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.