Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Report of the Board of Trustees and Superintendent of the Blind Institute to the Legislature of Mississippi: Session of 1874 Now, when you take into account that in former times eight thousand dollars in gold was deemed a scanty appropriation, how can we now, when living is far higher, make the two ends meet with seven thousand five hundred dollars? 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.