Excerpt from Thirty-Ninth Annual Report of "the Controllers of the Public Schools of the First School District of Pennsylvania," Comprising the City of Philadelphia: For the Year Ending December 31, 1857, With Their Accounts Obtained by adding the sum expended each year for Real Estate and School Furniture, to the whole amount expended for the same purposes In previous years. 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.