Excerpt from Auditor's Forty-Fifth Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Boston, and the County of Suffolk, for the Financial Year 1856-57: 1856, May 1, (Both Included, ) April 30, 1857 The system now in operation, of requiring purchasers to build on the lands Within a reasonable time after their purchase, has been found to Operate very favorably to the city's interest, as an increase of taxable property is found to follow almost immediately the sales of lands. The increase in the valuation Of the real estate in Ward XI, where the city lands are mostly located, has been from in 1853, to in 1857. 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.