Excerpt from Report of Commissioner of State Land Office of the State of Nebraska, Made to the Senate and House of Representatives, January 1st, 1871: Report for 1869 and 1870 The investment of School Funds is one of the most important duties to be performed. The chief considerations in making investments are to make them safe and profitable. The safety of the School Fund, not only for the time being, but in view of the future, with all its contingencies, is of paramount importance. An unsafe investment, at the very highest rate of interest, is hazardous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.