Special Assessments (Volume 2, Nos. 1-3); A Study in Municipal Finance

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1898. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE To indicate the authorities from which the materials for a study of this kind have been derived, has become an integral part of a writer's duty toward his readers. Actuated by this thought, I have cited amply as references in the notes those sources which may be available to the ordinary student. On the other hand, I have gained no small portion of the information here presented, especially with regard to the practical operation of special assessments, by personal interviews with the officials in charge of this branch of the municipal administration in quite a number of our larger cities. To these officials, as also to the many others who have kindly responded to my inquiries both with written replies and with copies of their reports, I owe much, although I am unable to express my thanks to them individually by name. The great mine of information concerning special assessments in this country--hitherto for the most part unworked-- is comprised in the countless legal decisions and legislative enactments bearing upon various phases of the subject. In this study I have fortified all inferences of law by proper citations of the reports, and have also collated these citations in the table of cases which follows. The many cases and laws to which I have referred, but which did not yield material precisely in point, have been altogether omitted. I think I may add that this is the first work upon this subject, however superficial it may be found to be, that can even make a pretense of comprehensive treatment. Yet numerous books contain allusions to special assessments or present discussions of particular aspects of the topic. Those dealing with the law of 150 [500 special assessments are the most satisfactory. I have consulted these works--often with...