Proceedings Of The Louisville Conference For Good City Government And Of The Third Annual Meeting Of The National Municipal League

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ISBN 13 : 9781528378284
Total Pages : 302 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings of the Louisville Conference for Good City Government and of the Third Annual Meeting of the National Municipal League written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings of the Louisville Conference for Good City Government and of the Third Annual Meeting of the National Municipal League: Held May 5, 6 and 7, 1897 Taking up the recital of important achievements from which we are to determine the extent of the general advance, we must commence with Boston, the home of political experi ments. Here we find the Municipal League continuing its efi'orts to secure needed changes in the laws relating to that city. One by one important amendments have been suggested. Pressed and finally adopted. The term of the mayor has been lengthened and single headed bureaus substituted for commis sions; and now a League bill is upon passage establishing a single chambered legislature in place of the biennial one; and another creating a mayor's council or cabinet, to consist of members selected from leading trade and business bodies, to serve in a purely advisory capacity, and to perpetuate as a part of the city's government the present extra-legal but most use ful council appointed by Mayor Quincy at the beginning of his term. The League's activity has been mainly along legislative lines, although it has exerted in some instances a most salutary political influence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.