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Excerpt from Twenty-First Annual Report of the Board of Fire Commissioners to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore: For the Fiscal Year Ending December 31st, 1879 The sum of was appropriated for the ex penses of the department for the year ending December 31, 1879, and the amount drawn was In April last the ordinance, giving the authority to the Inspector of Public Buildings for the repairs of the engine-houses, was revoked and the authority vested in the Board of. Fire Commissioners. The amount of money appropriated for those repairs was $7 000, and there was expended by the Inspector, prior to the time of its being turned over to the Board, the sum of leaving a balance of This amount has been all expended. This money has been judicious ly used in making repairs and improvements to the houses, which were actually necessary. Engine House No. 1, Paca street, which has heretofore been much cramped for stable room and a proper space to store the feed needed by the company, has had a new stable built in the rear, extending out to Diamond street. The horse stalls have been turned, to front to the apparatus, thereby making a considerable difference in the time of getting out in response to alarms of fire. The eu ginefroom has also been refitted in a substantial man ner. This improvement, we consider, is one of the best which has been made in the houses of the department for a long time. 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.