Showing Address delivered at the laying of the corner stone of the City Hall : in the city of Baltimore, on Tuesday, October 18th, 1867 by John H. B. Latrobe

Excerpt from Address Delivered at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the City Hall: In the City of Baltimore, on Tuesday, October 18th, 1867 My Fellow-Citizens: I have accepted the invitation to deliver this Address with more than usual pleasure. I scarcely regret that a busy period of professional life has been broken in upon by its preparation. For years the municipality of Baltimore has been housed in a way unbecoming the character of our people. The back parlor of an old-fashioned private residence has accommodated the Mayor, while the front parlor has been the Secretary's office, as well as the ante-room for the crowds having business with the Chief Magistrate of the city. The Register and the Comptroller have divided between them similar parlors in an adjacent building. The Appeal Tax Court has been packed away in a room some twelve feet by fifteen. The Police Commissioners were to be found in the back building of a house a century old, and left unfinished. 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.