Excerpt from Durban: Fifty Years' Municipal HistoryThe story of the early days of the town anterior to its incorporation has been related so thoroughly and so skilfully by J. Forsyth Ingram in The Story of an African Seaport, and by George Russell in Old Durban, that it is unnecessary to refer here to the terrible vicissitudes experienced by the early settlers. It was therefore decided to confine this book to the history of the Corporation from the date of the pro clamation of the township as a Borough in 1854. As far as possible the history has been arranged in chronological order, special chapters being devoted to the more important Municipal undertakings.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.