Excerpt from The Twenty-First Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Concord, for the Fiscal Year Ending February 1, 1874: Together With Other Annual Reports and Papers Relating to the Affairs of the City All persons furnishing materials or service for the city, or aid to city paupers, should be particular to take the name of the person ordering such service, material, or aid, and should know that the person is duly authorized to contract said liability. The city will not be holden for merchandise sold or delivered on city pauper account, except on the written order of the Overseer of the Poor, and for no longer time than until his successor shall have been appoint ed and qualified. Duplicate copies will be required of all bills payable by the city, fur nished on county pauper account. All bills against the city must be approved by the person authorizing the charge: and unless this is done, no action can be had upon the bill by the committee on accounts, and no order will be given for its pay ment. 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.