“ Ann Arbor is the centre of a fertile agricultural district, and has important manufactures of furniture, agricultural implements, pumps, engines, boilers, lumber products, organs and pianos, flour, carriages, etc. The government, under a revised charter of 1895, is vested in a mayor, biennially elected, a city council, and administrative officials, the majority of whom are appointed by the mayor, either absolutely or with the consent of the council. Ann Arbor was settled in 1824, and was incorporated as a city in 1851. ”