Excerpt from Budget Estimates and Allowances: City of Los Angeles, California, for the Fiscal Year 1916-1917 Sec. 209. It shall be the duty of every officer of the city, the conduct of whose office requires the expenditure of money, and every board or commission having the management and control of any department of the government of the city, to prepare and file with the City Auditor, on or before the first day of April of each year, a detailed estimate in writing of the amount of expenditure required for the proper conduct of the business of their respective offices and departments for the next ensuing fiscal year, including a statement of the salaries of their subordinates. 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.