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The program of the exercises at the Celebration, which was held at Bordentown, November 12, 1891, the  sixtyeth anniversary of the first movement by steam in the State of New Jersey, was as follows:

ADDRESS OF PRESENTATION, by Joseph T. Richards, Assistant Chief Engineer Pennsylvania Railroad Co.

ADDRESS OF ACCEPTANCE, by F. Wolcott Jackson, General Superintendent United Railroads of N.J^[[.,]], Division Pennsylvania Railroad Co.

HISTORICAL ADDRESS: The Camden and Amboy Railroad - origin and early history - by J. Elfreth Watkins, Curator, Section of of Transportation and Engineering, U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has since published the addresses delivered at the Celebration in a [[strikethrough]] handsome [[/strikethrough]] memorial volume ^[[, handsomely illustrated.]]

Interest in the Department of Transportation at the World's Columbian Exposition, has led to frequent examinations ^[[of the collections]] during the year of the objects both [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] ^[[in]] the exhibition and [[strikethrough]] reserve [[/strikethrough]] ^[[study]] series by offici-