Chapter XXIII

§1. What other duty does the government owe to the citizens?

§2. What portion of the people of a state are most favored?

§3. By whom are canals made? Is there such a public work in this state?

§4. Why should not the money to make them be raised by a general tax?

§5. How are funds sometimes provided for this purpose?

§6. For the want of such funds, how is the money obtained? How is it to be repaid?

§7. How is the business of borrowing done? What are _state stocks_?

§8. What renders the purchase of state stocks a safe transaction?

§9. By whom are canal affairs managed?

§10. What states are most noted for their canals?

§11. By whom are rail-roads usually constructed? Why is an act of incorporation necessary?

§12. What does the act provide?

§13. How is the capital, or stock, raised? What officers are chosen, and by whom?

§14. What is the nature of these certificates of stock?

§15. How do stockholders expect to be refunded? What are dividends? When are stocks at par? When above or below par?