Excerpt from Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Boston: 1893 In December, 1891, the School Board forwarded to His Honor the Mayor the estimated amount which would be required for carrying on the schools, ex clusive of new school-houses, for the financial year 1892 - 93. The amount asked for was The City Council granted the sum of The Board, with the loyal disposition to comply with the decision of the City Connolly - though the reduc tion of nearly$50,000 from the estimates submitted occasioned them considerable anxiety, earnestly tried to keep within the appropriation granted. They performed the task, but it was by making sacrifices. The reduction was principally met by restricting some and deferring other needed repairs in school-houses, and by curtailing every other item of expense where it was possible to do so. In addition to this reduction His Honor the Mayor, late in the year, requested the city departments (the School Department included) to save as much as possible from the money appro priated to meet certain expenditures not anticipated when the appropriations were granted. The Board responded to this request, and other needed repairs and improvements were deferred, and other items of expense still further curtailed, and the amount of the appropriation unexpended was therefore larger than it would have been. 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.