Excerpt from Annual Report of City Engineer, 1870 Although the ordinance went into effect upon. Its passage, and the City Engineer and City Surveyor each assumed charge and control of their special business as defined by the ordi nance, yet it was found impracticable to immediately reorganize the working force so as to assign to each department the assis tants required, and, as the Auditor decided that the appropria tions could not well be divided, it was thought best to continue the old system of using the same force of assistants and em ployes in common until the close of the financial year 1868 - 9. 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.