Excerpt from Forty-Seventh Annual Report of the City of Rochester, New Hampshire: For the Year Ending December 31st Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Eight In taking the oath of office as Mayor of Rochester for a third term I wish to congratulate you for the earnestness and honesty with which you have ao complished your task during the last year. I wish to thank the Citizens of Rochester for the Honor they have conferred upon me and with their help and yours I hope we can accomplish results which will be a benefit to us all. Public officials are elected for the purpose of repro senting the community, and all private considerations - personal feelings, preference and prejudices - must be set aside. The most important duty of the Council this year is the adoption of a budget for the year 1939 - I urge you to give it careful study in every detail so that we may inaugurate the most rigid economy. During the year 1987 our increased assessed valu ation was this would not have been so had we not been able to maintain a reasonable tax rate as the increase came from new construction and 1938 will have a large increase in new construction also, therefore it behooves us to strive to keep our tax rate within the bounds of reason. During the past two years we have resurfaced many new streets. Our efforts this year should be largely to preserve and maintain them by giving them another coat of oil for I consider it poor economy to build streets and then not give them the proper care and in a few years have to rebuild them all over. The Hot Top Plant has been rebuilt at a cost of We now have a plant that is worth more than double that amount. 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.