Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty-Third Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Manchester, for the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1868: Together With Other Annual Reports and Papers Relating to the Affairs of the City Included in the foregoing statement is the sum of 43, paid for furnishing and fitting up the Court House and lot, which was authorized to be met by loan; but was taken from the tax receipts. In all, the sum of 16 has been paid from the receipts, on account Of the Court House, above the sum raised by loan, rather than hire money, while sufficient funds were remaining in the Treasury. And notwithstanding this, there is now in the City Treasury, the sum of 85, which is a larger cash balance than was ever before on hand at the close of any municipal year. 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.