Great Cities in America: Their Problems and Their Government

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Macmillan, 1910 - 426 halaman

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Halaman 75 - It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations...
Halaman 22 - The indispensable necessity of complete authority at the seat of government carries its own evidence with it. It is a power exercised by every legislature of the Union, I might say of the world, by virtue of its general supremacy.
Halaman 77 - ... any debt hereafter incurred by the city of New York for a public improvement owned or to be owned by the city, which yields to the city current net revenue, after making any necessary allowance for repairs and maintenance for which the city is liable, in excess of the interest on said debt and of the annual...
Halaman ii - Monopolies and Trusts. By RT Ely. Municipal Engineering and Sanitation. By MN Baker. Newer Ideals of Peace. By Jane Addams. Principles of Anthropology and Sociology, The, in their Relations to Criminal Procedure. By M.
Halaman 81 - Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the State, and of all the civil divisions thereof, including cities and villages, shall be made according to merit and fitness to be ascertained, so far as practicable, by examinations, which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive...
Halaman 81 - But no law shall authorize the construction or operation of a street railroad except upon the condition that the consent of the owners of one-half in value of the property bounded on, and the consent also of the local authorities having the control of that portion of a street or highway upon which it is proposed to construct or operate such railroad be first obtained...
Halaman 141 - In the presence of great and imminent peril to the public health by reason of impending pestilence...
Halaman 97 - Of the total of sixteen votes, a controlling number, nine are cast by the Mayor, the Comptroller, and the President of the Board of Aldermen.
Halaman 99 - Every such grant shall specify the mode of determining any valuation therein provided for, and shall make adequate provision by way of forfeiture of the grant, or otherwise, to secure efficiency of public service at reasonable rates, and the maintenance of the property in good order throughout the term of the grant.
Halaman 140 - The board of health is hereby authorized and empowered, from time to time, to add to and to alter, amend, or annul any part of the said sanitary code, and may therein publish additional provisions for the security of life and health in the city of New York...

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