Proceedings of the ... National Conference for Good City Government Held at ... Together with a Bibliography of Municipal Government and Reform and a Brief Statement Concerning the Objects and Methods of Municipal Reform Organizations in the United States

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Municipal League, 1904
 

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Página 126 - ... every charter shall designate the officers who shall, respectively, perform the acts and duties required of county officers to be done by the constitution or by the general law, as far as applicable.
Página 174 - ... and ordinances of the city of Denver, as the same shall exist when this amendment takes effect, shall, for the time being only, and as far as applicable, be the charter and ordinances of the city and county of Denver...
Página 397 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her cunning. Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, If I remember thee not ; If I prefer not Jerusalem Above my chief joy.
Página 250 - ... frailest in nature ; but he is a reed that thinks. It needs not that the whole universe should arm to crush him. He dies from an exhalation, from a drop of water. But should the universe conspire to crush him, man would still be nobler than that by which he falls ; for he knows that he dies; and of the victory which the universe has over him, the universe knows nothing. Thus our whole dignity consists in thought. .... Let us labor, then, to think aright ; this is the foundation of morality.
Página 178 - ... paramount while in force to the provisions relating to the same matter included in the local charter herein provided for.
Página 321 - Adams' father and twenty others, one or two from the north end of the town, where all the ship business is carried on, used to meet, make a caucus, and lay their plans for introducing certain persons into places of trust and power.
Página 198 - to compile and publish annually an abstract of the main features of the official statistics of the cities of the United States having over 30,000 inhabitants.
Página 301 - The system as it is actually administered results -in debauching the moral sense. It is a school of perjury.
Página 302 - The tax on Government stock is thought by this court to be a tax on the contract, a tax on the power to borrow money on the credit of the United States, and consequently to be repugnant to the Constitution.
Página 160 - Buildings may be required by the Board to appoint janitors and engineers from the list obtained by such examination. He shall appoint such assistants and deputies as may be authorized by the Board of Education, whose compensation shall be fixed by the Board...

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