Excerpt from The Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Brooklyn Library, 1885 The general expense item of consists entirely of Water Rates paid to the Department of City Works. The special art fund item represents'a payment to Mr. Eastman Johnson, on account, for his portrait of Hon. Simeon B. Chittenden', recently painted for the Library. 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.