Excerpt from The Mayor's Message: With Accompanying Documents, to the City Council of the City of St. Louis, at the November Session The total bonded debt of the city, including the recent issue of water bonds under the act of the Legislature passed last Winter, is The floating debt, with the exception of due on notes for purchase of buildings and grounds for Social Evil Hospital, is composed of the amount claimed as due by the Gas Light Company, which is, without interest, 96. The anticipation bonds, being merely temporary obligations, which will be canceled by the incoming revenue of the present year, cannot and should not be embraced in the indebtedness of the city. 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.