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surpass all others in its efficiency, its safety, its equality, 

 its justice, and its policy ; and that, too, without any 

 interference Avith vested rights. 



"And here your petitioner cannot but remind your 

 Honourable House, that in cases where great changes 

 have been wrought, care has always been taken of 

 vested rights — such as with the Municipal Reform Bill, 

 which j^rovides compensation for the clerks of different 

 corporate towns. 



" Therefore, your petitioner lastly prays, that in passing 

 any Bills having reference to railroads, in some or one of 

 them such provision shall be made as shall prevent your 

 petitioner and his family from coming to the extreme 

 of miserv. 



" And your petitioner, as in duty bound, shall 

 ever pray. 



" Signed at Cambridge, 15th April, 1845. 



"THO. CROSS." 



