Excerpt from Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Trade and Commerce of Chicago: For the Year Ending December 31, 1885, Compiled for the Board of TradeBe it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: section 1. That the persons now composing the Board of Trade Of the City of Chicago are hereby created a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of the board OF trade OF the city or Corporate title. Chicago, and by that name may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, receive and hold property and effects, real and personal, by gift, devise, or pur chase, and dispose Of the same by sale, lease, or other Linux! Wise, said property so held not to exceed at any time the sum of two hundred thousand dollars may have Seal.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.