Excerpt from Address of the Mayor, to the City Council of Boston: January 7, 1839 The erection of a new City Hall is a business which has been referred to your consideration by the Council of last. Year, and which will claim much of your attention. Plans, models and estimates have been prepared, and the City is in possession of a piece of land which affords a very desirable, location for such a building. I cannot but urge the subject upon your attention at an early period, - as I esteem the erection of a City Hall a work of very pressing importance, -not for the accommodation of the city officers, but for that of the public, and for the safe keeping of important records and other documents. 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.