Excerpt from Twenty-Sixth Annual Report of the Board of Trustees and Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Librarian of the Public Library of the District of Colombia: For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1923 These estimates as sent in But since the Operation of the classification act will make increases in the compensation of the present staff (we hope up to the full amount of our original allocations), and since we are fully committed to the increases in force at the salaries mentioned, our estimates may be considered as totaling Such total is found to be but 73 cents per capita for the population of the District as compared with $1 per capita declared by the American Library Association a reasonable minimum annual revenue for the library in a community desiring to maintain a good modern public library system with trained librarians. As we pointed out in our 1922 report (pp. 6 and several of the larger American cities spend just under $1 per capita-and Cleveland spends per capita on its public library. The figures of our estimates are, by comparison with other cities, modest. We urge that you and your colleagues of the board of commissioners will approve and send forward our full estimates. 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.