Excerpt from Message of His Honor the Mayor and Reports of City Officers to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore: Together With a List of the Members of the City Council, and Officers of the Corporation, for the Year 1869 I will not disguise the fact, however, that this improve ment has neither been so thorough, nor so extensive as at this period of the last year, I hopefully anticipated. 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.