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10 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.pality's work. Improvements of a public characterhave been conducted with an eye not to parsimoniouseconomy, but to an intelligent expenditure of thepublic funds in a manner calculated to secure thebest results to taxpayers from the income derivedfrom them. -The necessities of a growing city haverendered it impossible at this time .to further decreasethe tax rate, but citizens have the satisfactionof knowing that they are securing better service inthe various branches of the government, and thatlarger expenditures are being made for bettermentsthan probably ever before. No one having Savannah'sbest interests at heart questions the advisabilityof such expenditures. Street paving, street opening,house drainage, and other works of an entirely newcharacter, calculated to improve the healthfulness orappearance of the city, and to render it more convenientfor business and more attractive for residence,must commend themselves to the public mindand obtain the endorsement of all.The advance that Savannah has made in thesedirections in recent years is a source of gratificationto its people. A policy of continued improvements,within the limits of our present income and its naturalincrease from the growth of the city in populationand wealth, is not apt to fail to receive the supportof citizens as long as such outlays are manifestlyso made as to secure full returns for the money soinvested.finances of the Year. •During the year 1901 the city's expenses throughsuch permanent improvements were very heavy. The