Excerpt from Sixty-Second Annual Report of the City of Rochester, New Hampshire: For the Year Ending December 31st, 1953 The first objective of this policy is, of course, to bring about a substantial reduction in the present tax rate and this must be done without resorting to the time old trick of a gen eral increase in valuations. 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.