Excerpt from Second Annual Message of Henry P. Scherer, Mayor of Fort Wayne, With Annual Reports of Heads Departments of the City Government, for the Fiscal Year, Ending December 31, 1897 This board has done very good work during the last year, and without letting the public interest suffer, has returned to the comptroller, from its total. Appropriation of the sum of of unexpended balances. While It IS true that no streets were paved last year, all of the street cross ings which had been neglected were replaced and the money so expended was taken out of the street intersection fund. The work to be done by this board in 1898 is of great im portance and carries with it a great deal of responsibility, and I hope that it will proceed as heretofore, conscientiously and carefully in all its undertakings. All contracts to be let by them will be opened to the widest competition and such plans and specifications only will be submitted as will produce the best material and workmanship obtainable. 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.