Excerpt from Sixth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston: Presented November 15, 1858 The past year has been the most important year in the history of the Institution. On the first day of January, the erection of the new building being substantially completed, it was, with interesting and appropriate public ceremonies, sur rendered by the Commissioners to the City Government, and committed by the City Government to the care of the Trus tees. An unusually genial day increased the attractions of the occasion; and the Trustees are under the impression that, of the immense crowd assembled to witness the dedication of the Institution to the great cause of intellectual and moral improvement, there was not an individual, who did not feel185 public library. 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.