Excerpt from Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Portsmouth, for the Year Ending December 31, 1899: Also, Reports of City Officers, Board of Instruction, Vital Statistics, Etc Chairman - Lewis Gr. Davis; Joseph W. Marden, Thomas R. Martin, Charles W. Shannon, Mark W. Ayers, Warren P. Webster, George A. J ackson, J 01111 H. Dowd, Augustus N. Wells. Overseers OF the' poor. Chairman, Ex oficio - Mayor Calvin Page. Ward 1, Edwin Underhill; Ward 2, Charles P. Ah bott Ward 3, Edward Pendergast Ward 4, William P. Gardner Ward 5, Benjamin F. Mugridge, J r. 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.