Excerpt from Catalogue of the Weston Town Library, 1896 In the winter of 18 56-57, the citizens of Weston, in response to a public notice, assembled in their town hall to consider by what means the general intelligence of the town could best be promoted. This meeting decided by vote that the object under consideration could be most economically and effectually secured by a free public library. A committee to initiate the movement at a suitable time was accordingly appointed. 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.