SECOND ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

COMMISSIONER OF INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS,

MADE TO THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

AT ITS

JANUARY SESSION, 1889.

PROVIDENCE:

E. L. FREEMAN & SON, PRINTERS TO THE STATE.

1889.

BAKER LIBRARY

FROM THE LIBRARY OF

SENATOR NELSON W. ALDRIGH

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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.

:

TO HIS EXCELLENCY, ROYAL C. TAFT,

Governor of Rhode Island:

I have the honor to present the second annual report of the Bureau of Industrial Statistics.

JOSIAH B. BOWDITCH.

PROVIDENCE, January 30, 1889.