Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Manchester for the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1869: Together With Other Annual Reports and Papers Relating to the Affairs of the City An Order authorizing the printing of the Twenty-fourth Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Manchester. Ordered, (if the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, ) That the Joint Standing Committee on Finance be and they are hereby authorized to cause sixteen hundred copies of the Twenty-fourth Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Manchester, including the Reports of the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, the Overseers of the Poor, the Committee on City Farm, the Trustees, Librarian and Treasurer of the City Library, the School Committee and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the City Liquor Agent, the Committee on Cemeteries, the Library Building Committee, and the Building Committee and Committee on School-House Repairs, to be printed for the use of the inhabitants of said city, and that the expense thereof be charged to the appropriation for Printing and Stationery. 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.