Excerpt from Ordinances of the City of Bloomington, A. D. 1876: Comprising the General Ordinances, Acts of Incorporation, and Other Laws Affecting the City, Together With an Appendix Showing the Composition of the City Government From 1850 to 1876; Revised Ordinances of the City of Bloomington 1876 I always found as thoroughly informed in matters relating to the city government as he was eminently obliging and gentlemenly as an officer. I am also indebted to Mr. Wm. G. Boyce, late City Marshal, and other city officials whose names I have not space to mention, for practical hints touching the needs of the city. To all these gentlemen I extend my hearty thanks. Having thus paid my debts, which was the object of this preface, I have but a word to add in behalf of the work itself. No one is more sensible of its errors and imperfections than I am; and the reader need not imagine that he is the original discoverer of any of them. The very chaotic condition in which the city ordinances have long been, will probably render a work as imperfect and unpretentious as this quite welcome to the profession and the public. One thing I know: I have expended an amount of labor on this book which no one who has not performed a similar task can well realize. If the result is not perfect it is not because I have not desired and labored to make it so. 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.