Public Policy Editorials, Volume 2Public policy Publishing Company, 1901 |
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Page 106 - The general assembly shall never authorize any county, city, town, or township, by vote of its citizens or otherwise, to become a stockholder in any joint stock company, corporation, or association...
Page 28 - We must first agree on what items constitute cost; then we must see to it that these items are honestly included in all statements of cost. This done, we are in a position to take intelligent action, and may then award the contract to the municipality or to private enterprise, whichever in the light of the facts so obtained may appear to be to the best economic advantage of the greater number of people — those who toil and are poor.
Page 112 - State and to prepare a bill for the organization of the cities and villages "which plan shall be uniform in its operation throughout the State and in which there shall be a separation of legislative powers of the officers of municipal corporations.
Page 119 - ... A similar condition obtains in respect to electric light and power consolidations. The Municipal Electric Lighting Commission of the City of Baltimore said in a report made in February, 1900: "The commission is strongly of the opinion that open competition in service of the character rendered * * * can eventually have no other effect than to increase the price. This is the uniform experience of every city; a temporary reduction may be made, to be certainly followed by a consolidation and an increase...
Page 167 - The interest everywhere manifested in its investigation has convinced the committee that no general question of governmental policy occupies at this time so prominent a place in the thoughts of the people as that of controlling the steady growth and extending * influence of corporate power and of regulating its relations to the public...
Page 49 - The actual value of such shares, where such shares have no market value, shall be ascertained by adding together the capital stock, surplus and undivided profits, and deducting therefrom the amount of real and personal property owned by said institution on which it pays tax and dividing the net amount by the number of shares in said institution.
Page 152 - ... be dwelt upon, but the positive measures necessary for the improvement of existing conditions must be formulated. To do this requires the most careful consideration of the general principles as well as the technical details of every department of municipal administration.
Page 53 - Fifth Amendment's guarantee that private property shall not be taken for a public use without just compensation was designed to bar Government from forcing some people alone to bear public burdens which, in all fairness and justice, should be borne by the public as a whole.
Page 152 - ... the work of the State examiner is made a penal offense, punishable by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one year nor more than five years, or both. Another advantage incident to uniformity of financial reports is the possibility thus offered of furnishing every city with the results of the experience of sister municipalities. An accurate record of the financial operations of the cities of...