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Página 221 - This tax shall be in lieu of all other taxes and licenses, state, county, and municipal...
Página 207 - ... years. In all of the cities that have adopted the Commission plan of Government — from Galveston, Texas, down — the great majority of the population strongly favor it. Its negative results, in the elimination of waste and corruption, have been remarkable: its positive results have been no less so. It has proved itself responsive not only to public sentiment generally, but to the better sentiment of the community.
Página 209 - The cost of cast iron is, however, a decided obstacle to its universal use, and from this fact comes the corrugated metal pipe which has been on the market for several years past. If made of ordinary steel the use of such pipe cannot be condemned too strongly, but if made of special material containing so small a percentage of impurities as to be practically pure iron it will be found an economical investment for a township.
Página 232 - UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY FORM NO. DD6, 60m, 12/80 BERKELEY, CA 94720 TO—* 202 Main Library LOAN PERIOD 1 HOME USE 2 3 4 5 6...
Página 178 - I move that the thanks of this Association be tendered to the retiring President...
Página 184 - There is not so much difficulty iti getting the ordinary citizen to vote right, as to get him to vote at all. In my judgment the Berkeley plan is to be commended and will ultimately prove to be the safest plan, not because it devises any particular method for discouraging the machine vote, but because it is designed to induce a full expression from the non-machine voters at the incipient stage of the process of election. While no plan is perfect, the best system is the one which results in the largest...
Página 218 - ... legislative grant ? The question not being judicially settled as to our municipal corporations, the opinion is ventured that, in the absence of an express grant or statute conferring or limiting the power, the common council of one of our municipal corporations as ordinarily constituted, does possess, in the absence of any express or implied restriction in the charter, the incidental power, not only to make by-laws, but, for cause, to expel its members, and, for cause, to remove corporate officers,...
Página 177 - ... Coronado Ferry Company have issued to you passes that you may use during your stay here. Why, San Diego is the most hospitable place I ever saw. Even in meeting the Chief of Police this morning, he said to me, "You can have full access to our local bastile, without the necessity of filing a complaint." I thanked him, and told him I would think it over and perhaps wait until later in the session before I accepted. Mr. Mayor, we are pleased to be with you. We came to work with you, and with that...
Página 185 - Since it became effective it has proven practical in operation. Commission Charters. Improvements no doubt will be suggested from time to time, drawn from a fuller experience with commission charters, but the reforms which they have already accomplished and the improvements in general municipal conditions, which their introduction has effected in the sixty or seventy cities where such form of charter has been adopted, indicate very strongly that this movement, which has already attained very general...
Página 178 - Secretary and his assistant for the very efficient manner in which they have attended to the duties of their respective offices during the present year, and that this motion be made a matter of record with the association.