Excerpt from Statistics of Cities Having a Population of Over 30, 000, 1906 The government of the city - that is, of the com munity constituting the city - for which the Bureau of the Census seeks to present financial statistics is not limited to the city corporation, as above described, but includes all corporations, organizations, commis sions, boards, and other authorities through which the people of the city exercise any privilege of local self government, or through which they enjoy the exclusive benefits of any municipal function. In some American cities the only books of accounts are those of the treasurers. In other cities additional accounts are kept by the comptrollers or other officers exercising the duties of a comptroller or auditor. In both classes of cities the treasurers' accounts are what are known in the business world as cash accounts; that is, they are arranged to furnish an exhibit of the flow of cash into and out from the treasury and to show whether any of the money. Received is lost or mis applied. In the great majority of those cities in which books are kept by a comptroller or similar officer, such books are in some of their essentials the same as those of the treasurer. They include accounts with the treasurer, which are a check upon his transactions and upon those relative to appropriations. 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.