Excerpt from The Financial History of Baltimore Hon. Ferdinand C. Latrobe has discussed many phases of the work in the light of a long and intimate acquaintance with municipal affairs. Hon. Thomas G. Hayes has made repeated sacrifices of time and effort to elucidate legal aspects of municipal development. Hon. Alcaeus Hooper, Mr. Mendes Cohen, Mr. Theodore Marburg, Mr. E. Glenn Perine have read portions of the monograph in manuscript or in proof and have made helpful criticisms. Mr. N. Mur ray oi the Johns Hopkins University has given valuable suggestions as to form and arrangement. In a detailed investigation dealing with so large a body of specific facts, it seems inevitable that errors should creep in. Yet earnest effort has been made to secure accuracy, and it is hoped that few essential misstatements have been made. Critical comment and constructive suggestion have been freely introduced, but always in the objective spirit of the student and the investigator. 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.