Excerpt from Third Annual Report of the City of Rochester, N. H: Containing Inaugural Address of the Mayor for 1895, Resolutions Passed by the City Council, Receipts and Expenditures, Reports of the Several Departments, Including the School Board, Vital Statistics, Etc;, For the Municipal Year 1894 The city's indebtedness at present, excluding the water bonds, is 32. The notes given on account of sewerage aggregate 14, bearing an interest of 4 and 5 per cent. Per annum. As the cost of completing the system can now be approximately estimated, and as I am confident that city bonds bearing a lower rate of interest would sell at a premium, I recommend that you give this matter your early attention and institute such proceedings as will secure this saving to the city. In the matter of appropriations you should be liberal but not extravagant. The rate of taxation is as high as you can justly make it. In distributing the amount levied the control ing question should be, what outlay will bring the people the greatest returns. 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.