Excerpt from How Americans Are Governed in Nation, State, and City The increasing importance of municipal problems and their immediate interest has made it proper that more attention Should be given to this subject than is usually done. The origin of municipal powers, and the exercise of these powers over public health, building, streets, water-sup ply, schools, charities, and various public utilities, and their relation to public service corporations are told in an interest ing and informing way. In the second part of this book the organization of City Government is explained, its various forms, the courts, police, and elections, and there is also a chapter devoted to the use of civic opportunities for selfish purposes which is commonly termed graft. 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.