The History of the Consolidation of the City of Philadelphia (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The History of the Consolidation of the City of Philadelphia To the venerated Senior of the Philadelphia Bar, who is yet, at great age, spared by a kind Providence, to shed a lustre upon our profession, this brief history is dedicated. Though not personally an actor in the work of consolidation, the counsel and countenance of Horace Binney were invaluable to his active juniors, and with the public largely influential. With the writer his opinion was authoritative to induce him to submit to the demand of his fellow-citizens to represent them in the Senate. It is fitting, therefore, that this report of the stewardship of their representatives should be presented to Horace Binney, and that the actors in the work achieved should claim for it the protecting influence of his name through later generations. To his acceptance, then, and to the favorable regards of the writer's associates in preparing and carrying the Act of Consolidation, and to the safekeeping of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, he commits this history, in the hope that it may be preserved in the remembrance of the Citizens of Philadelphia. 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.