Argument in Opposition to the Project of Annexing Boston And Roxbury
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Each municipality should dischai'ge its own liens and pay its own debts. This computation, in its merger of certain or contin- gent liabilities, is, after all, but a single element, in the estimates and appraisements of this unlimited copartnership, and justice and public expediency, to minorities no less than to majorities, alike require that these ledger lines of debt and credit, between counties, towns and cities, should remain inviolate and unimpaired. CITY GOVEUNMENT OF UOSTON. Ought the a...rduous duties and responsibilities of the Mayor and Govern- ment of Boston to be augmented by this special or indefinite inci-ease? Burdened already with its debt of tliirteen millions, charged now with jurisdiction over a valuation of three hundred and seventy-two millions of 25 dollars, with an annual disbursement of many millions, and to-day, wit- nessing an unprecedented increase of two millions more in taxation in the present year, with its power and patronage, its varied enterprises for the widening of narrow streets, the regulating of free ferries, the construction of public buildings and water-mains ; its harbor and quarantines, and the islands of its jurisdiction; its public institutions, its wants and interests, can it be that any benefit can accrue to the State or the city, from a measure which must inevitably impose additional duties and w*eighty responsibilities beyond those which are necessarily incident to the regular growth of the city?
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