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posed and condemned by the Commission, the honest admini- 
stration of corporate funds and the efficient discharge of muni- 
cipal duties were provided for, and a uniform constitution for 
all the boroughs to which the Act applied was adopted, based 
on the model of the best municipal corporations. In con- 
clusion, Mr. Rothwell said that members of councils were now 
actuated by a utilitarian spirit, which boded good for the 
future, and the democratic principles which were the basis of 
municipal government, together with the more general recog- 
nition of the growing responsibilities of citizenship, had the 
effect of extending the full benefits of local administration to 
the humblest inhabitants of our towns. 
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