Fifty Eighth Annual Report Of The Receipts And Expenditures Of The City Of Concord For The Year Ending December 31 1910 PDF Download

Excerpt from Fifty-First Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Concord: For the Year Ending December 31, 1903; Together With Other Annual Reports and Papers Relating to the Affairs of the City In taking upon myself the duties of this office, 1 should he false to my deepest feelings if 1 did not at this time clearly acknowledge to the citizens of Concord my profound appreciation. for the honor they have conferred upon me. 1 may truly estimate it an honor, inasmuch as I had never associated myself with this office nor in any way had I ever manifested a desire to attain it. But coming to me as a spontaneous and sincere offering I could but regard it as a supreme call to duty, such as no Concord-loving son would care to disregard. I ought to be, and I am, profoundly grateful for this rare manifestation of confidence on the part of my fellow-citizens. Athough inexperienced and untried in the manifold and perplexing responsibilities of the mayorship 1 cheerfully assume the office, sustained by the resolution to do my utmost to subserve the welfare of this my native city. But, at the outset, let it he understood that in discharging my official duties, and in seeking to attain the fulfilment of reasonable expectation in the management of municipal affairs, I shall not. be unmindful of the changes and methods imperatively decreed by the age in which we live. Our city has become what it is largely because my predecessors and yours have recognized changed conditions and courageously adapted them to the city's needs. Few municipalities, T am free to say. have been more sensitive to modern influences than Concord has been. Cities as political entities generally reflect the tastes, customs, and intellectual desires of their inhabitants. and Concord is a conspicuous illustration of the rule. Municipal affairs are but the aggregation of private tastes and methods publicly displayed. The timid luxury of yesterday becomes the indispensable necessity of to-day. 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.