Excerpt from 1900, Seventh Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Laconia, New Hampshire: For the Year Ending February 15, 1900; Together With Other Annual Reports and Papers Relating to the Affairs of the City Gentlemen of the City Council: In accordance with the custom which has been observed for some years, I matte it my first official duty to communicate to you briefly such information pertaining to the city and its affairs with such recommendations and suggestions as appear to me to be worthy of your care and consideration. It is a cause for congratulation that so many members of this honorable body have had extended experience in the affairs of the city, an intimate knowledge of the city's wants and necessities acquired from a conscientious devotion to their official duties, covering in the case of some members, the entire period of the city's life. The new members of the council, all active and progressive citizens, it goes without saying, will very soon acquire and become familiar with the duties of their official position. For nearly the whole period since our incorparation as a city, the country has been laboring under a burden of financial depression, hardly equalled in its history, and it is another cause for congratulation that we enter upon our official duties at a time when the sun of prosperity, business activity and better times are rapidly rising. It is unnecessary for me to take your attention at this time at any length by suggesting figures and statistics, for the season that the sixth annual report of the city has just been distributed, which report shows in detail the financial and economic condition of the city. 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.