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[RAILROADS]. Sammelband of 13 Pamphlets Relating Legal Cases Concerning the Transcontinental Railroad in the United States. [V.p., ca. 1870s]. 8vos. With two fold-out tables and one fold-out map with lithographed color routes for the Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific Railways. Bound together in contemporary half black morocco over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt (spine worn, front hinge torn, binding worn, front board nearly detached, rear hinge starting, minor toning to text, a few short tears to fold-out tables and map). FIRST EDITIONS OF THESE PAMPHLETS; PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ARTEMAS H. HOLMES TO ANOTHER ATTORNEY (Holmes was a prominent attorney of his day, who took the case on behalf of the Kansas Pacific Railway). These pamphlets and documents concern the legal cases filed by Kansas Pacific Railways against the Union Pacific Railways for their practices of overcharging Kansas Pacific Railways for the use of their transcontinental railroad lines. This sammelband has documents of claims and counter-claims during this case, as well as other railroad-related documents. The documents included are: Pacific Railroad Acts, from July 1, 1862, to June 22, 1874; The Pacific Railroads: The Rights of the People Ignored; The Kansas Pacific and Denver Pacific Railway Companies vs. the Union Pacific Railway Company: Brief and Argument of J. M. Woolworth; [same: brief of J. P. Usher]; Pacific Railroad Lines: Speech of Hon. J. B. Chaffee in the United States Senate, November 13, 1877; The Secretary of the Interior on the Pacific Railroads: Extract from Annual Report, December 3, 1877; First Memorial of Committee of Bondholders of the Kansas Pacific Railway Company to the Secretary of the Interior, April 21, 1877; [ditto, October 1, 1877; ditto, January 11, 1878]; Argument of Artemus H. Holmes before the Attorney General, December 19, 1877; Letter of J. P. Usher to the President of the United States; Message of the President to Congress transmitting Opinion of the Attorney General, January 18, 1878; The Kansas Pacific Railway Company vs. the Union Pacific Railroad Company: Correspondence concerning a determination of the questions involved in this cause.