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Then was the harvest-time of scheming lawyers, parliamentary agents, engineers, surveyors, and traffic-takers, who were ready to take up any railway scheme however desperate, and to prove any amount of traffic even where none existed.
Consider, first, the complicated sets of changes that precede the making of every railway the provisional arrangements, the meetings, the registration, the trial section, the parliamentary survey, the lithographed plans, the books of reference, the local deposits and notices, the application to Parliament, the passing Standing Orders Committee, the first, second, and third readings: each of which brief heads indicates a multiplicity of transactions, and the extra development of sundry occupations as those of engineers, surveyors, lithographers, parliamentary agents, share-brokers; and the creation of sundry others as those of traffic-takers, reference-takers.
Consider, first, the complicated sets of changes that precede the making of every railway the provisional arrangements, the meetings, the registration, the trial section, the parliamentary survey, the lithographed plans, the books of reference, the local deposits and notices, the application to Parliament, the passing Standing-Orders Committee, the first, second, and third readings: each of which brief heads indicates a multiplicity of transactions, and the development of sundry occupations as those of engineers, surveyors, lithographers, parliamentary agents, share-brokers; and the creation of sundry others as those of traffic-takers, reference-takers.
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