Excerpt from Annual Report of the City Engineer for the Year 1882 The records of the number of vessels passing through the draw - ways, time of passage, name, etc., have been kept by the superintendents of the several bridges in the same manner as last year. These monthly returns have been tabulated, and a summary will be found in Appendix A. The usual annual examination (required by Section 4 of Chapter 17 of the Revised Ordinances) of all bridges within the city limits, open to team and foot travel, has been made, and the results of this examination respecting the condition of the bridges as to safety and need of renewal or repairs, are given in the succeeding pages. 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.