COST OF GOVERNMENT IN MASS. 



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CHART 2. Total Expeudltures per Capita for All Purposes and for Local Purposes 

 in Cities and Towns, 1910 and 1926, and the Percentage Increase. 



Dollars Pep Capita 



20 40 60 80 



Cities 

 Towns Over 50oo 



100 



120 



COHRECTIOr 

 issachusetts Agricultural S^perinent Station Bulletin 256. 



le title and col-ainn headings of Table 2 on page I72 should he: 



Taole 2. — Expenditures ly Jurisdictions, 1926 

 ( Percenta.?;es of 1912 ) 



. . , "To^'al For Identical To^Tns 



Jurisdiction as and Cities as 



Reported Classified in I912 



about one-teirth as nvuch as cities. 



Approximately one-sixth of the total expenditures were made by the State 

 and counties for general puposes, while five-sixths were for local town or city 

 purposes. 



The Relation between Population and 



Expenditures Per Capita 



Table 4 shows total expenditures per capita for towns and cities, grouped 

 according to population, for the years 1907, 1912, 1917, 1922 and 1926. Sub- 

 stantial differences will be noted between groups each year. However, a change 

 has taken place in the relation of population to expenditures per person. Until 

 1917, there was a fairly distinct tendency for expenditures per capita to bear 

 a direct relationship to population, that is, for expenditures per capita in large 



