Excerpt from The City Government of Philadelphia From the first of April, 1887, the municipal government of Philadelphia will be administered under a new charter, the fourth in historical sequence, generally known to local fame as the Reform Charter, ' or Bullitt Bill. It is claimed by its friends that this charter is the most advanced step toward the scientific government of great cities yet made. For a full understanding of its advent, the causes which called it into being and the remedies for present evils which it purports to bring, one must be somewhat familiar with the continued history of the City Government from the earliest times, for the story of the Bullitt Bill goes back to the landing of Penn and the founding of the city. 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.