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To the Mayor.

My dear Mr. Mayor:- I herewith tender you my resignation to take effect on April 19th. in accordance with our understanding.

I wish to take this opportunity, sir, to thank you for appointing me,and to express my very deep appreciation of your attitude toward me, and toward the force, the direction of which you in part entrusted to my care. We have been very intimately associated with your work and I know, as all men who have been associated with you do know, the devotion with which you have given all of your time and all of your efforts to the betterment of our civic conditions,undefinedandthe single mindedness with which at every crisis you have sought merely the good of the City. I have been able to work so zealously under you because you have never