Lanterna Rally

Author: William Henry Boyd

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-09-21

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9781396331848

Excerpt from Boyd's New York City Tax-Book: Being a List of Persons, Corporations and Co-Partnerships, Resident and Non-Resident, Who Were Taxed According to the Assessors' Books, 1856 and '57 The compiler and publisher of this work deems but few words necessary to explain its design or to indicate its use fulness. He has brought to his task the experience of nine years in the Directory business, and the determination to make his book a more convenient and a not less reliable work of refer ence than the official documents from which it is compiled. In almost every city of note within the sphere of his obser vation, a similar list is published annually; and it is a matter of great surprise, that in the commercial metropolis of this continent, the record of what should be the surest and readiest exponent of an individual's pecuniary responsibility - the assessed valuation of his real and personal property - has hitherto remained, comparatively, a sealed book. 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.