Excerpt from The Mayor's Message, Together With the Reports of the City Officers, Made to the City Council of Baltimore: For the Year 1870 This reform would; evidently, much simplify the financial transactions of the city, and enable your Committees to learn at any time, from the ledger of a single department, their actual condition. 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.