Excerpt from The Mayor's Address to the City Council, and Reports of Committees: Comprising the Finance, Overseer of the Poor, Engineer, Marshal and Liquor Agents, With the City Government for the Year Ending December 31, 1861 In accordance with the requirements of our City Charter we have this day assembled to perfect the organization of our City Government for the ensuing municipal year and in assuming the responsible duties of administering the af fairs of this city, we have pledged ourselves by our honor, as well as by our oaths, to meet the responsibilities, and to discharge faithfully, impartially, and to the best of our abil ities, the duties that may devolve upon us. It should be the purpose, and I doubt not it is the full determination of this Council, to foster and promote the best interests of our city and let us remember that in thus doing we shall make the best return, and most acceptable acknowledgment in our power to make, to our constituents, for the honor they have conferred upon us, and the trust and confidence they have reposed in us, in electing us with so great a degree of unanimity to the several offices which we now hold. 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.