Special Sewer Reports May 1877

Excerpt from Report Upon Sewer Assessments, Made by the Committee on City Engineer's Department, With an Appendix: Presented May 21, 1877 A study of the various modes Of payment adopted in other places reveals the fact, that not one of them possesses such apparent and superior advantages over the system established in this city as to make its adoption here desirable, and renders it far more difficult to detect the faults in what may be termed the Providence plan. For this reason the committee of the last municipal year found it impossible to agree upon any changes, which could be reported to the city council as either desirable or necessary, and after a discussion of the matter at various meetings the members found themselves wider apart in their conclusions, than when they entered upon a consideration of the subject. 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.