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Excerpt from City of Somerville Annual Reports, 1874 I desire to state that. These amounts are not in the least inflated, but represent the minimum value of property, and without desiring to censure our Board of Assessors - whose duties are always arduous and trying - to suggest that they guard against the ten deney of carrying up the valuation of our taxable property to the maximum point as a policy that is fallacious, and sure to lead to unsatisfactory, if not disastrous, results. The entire amount of taxable property in the city, by the Assessors' valuation of 1873, is thus showing the entire debt of our city to be less than two and three-fourths per cent. Of the taxable property, and less than the value of the property owned by the city an exhibit which can not fail to be satisfactory to every citizen. 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.