Valedictory Address of Hon. Levi Lincoln, Mayor of the City of Worcester

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Excerpt from Valedictory Address of Hon. Levi Lincoln, Mayor of the City of Worcester: With the Reports of the Committee on Finance, the City Treasurer, the School Committee, and the Chief Engineer, for the Year Ending March 31, 1849The organization of a vigilant and efficient Police will be among the first duties requiring our attention. It may, indeed, justly be said, that the importance and need of this was one of the most urgent, and probably, the prevailing motive to the adoption of the new form of Government. Within the brief period of a few years, a homogeneous population, almost purely agricultural, of native citizens of the place, personally known to each other, with few and simple objects of attention, and bound together by common interests, has been succeeded by vast acces sions of new residents engaged in all the varied puro suits and occupations of business, and by a constant in¿ux of transient persons of every description of character, brought hither by the inducements which increased facilities to communication, an active spirit of enterprise, progressive improvement, liberal ex penditures of money, and rapid growth in prosperity, never fail to attract. In such a state of things.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.