Excerpt from Annual Message of H. B. Rice, Mayor of the City of Houston and Annual Reports of City Officials: For the Year Ending February 29, 1912 You will notice that the appropriations recommended and the budget called for is some in excess of last year; one-half alone being an increase Of the interest and sinking funds on bonds and additional school appropriations. 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.