hodder: municipal government in the united states. 183 



direction of Maurice Block, Paris, Guillaumin, 1884. The Rapports 

 et Documents and Process- Verbaux of the municipal council are 

 printed yearly in three large quarto volumes, and the municipal 

 bureau of statistics issues an annual report. 



c. Berlin. 



An excellent short account of the government of Berlin is given by 

 Dr. Rudolph Gneist, a member of the municipal council since 1848, 

 in the Contemporary Review, December, 1884, vol. 46, p. 769. See 

 also the report on the ''Administration of the City of Berlin" in 

 Foreign Relations for 1881, p. 487, made by Assistant-Secretary of 

 Legation Coleman at the request of Hon. Andrew D. White, then 

 Minister to Germany. Also the articles by Prof. R. T. Ely in the 

 Nation for March 23 and 30, 1882, vol. 34, pp. 145 and 267. In the 

 Nation for September 25, 1892, vol. 55, p. 221, Mr. Leo S. Rowe 

 combats some of Dr. Shaw's generalizations respecting municipal 

 government in Europe, taking Berlin as his text. The Magistracy 

 of Berlin publish reports at irregular intervals. The first, Bericht 

 ueber die Vervaltnng der Stadt Berlin, in. den Jahren iSzg bis inclu. 

 1840, Berlin, 1842, and the second, in den Jahren 1841 bis incl. 

 18^0, Berlin, 1853, are of considerable importance. A third, pub- 

 lished in 1863, covers the period from 185 1 to i860, and a fourth, 

 printed in 1882, covers the period from 1861 to 1876. The Director 

 of the Statistical Bureau of the city publishes annually Das Statistische 

 Jahrbnch der Stadt Berlin. 



The present municipal system of Prussia dates from the reorganiza- 

 tion of the municipalities by Stein and Hardenburg, November 19, 

 1808. See Seeley's Life of Stein, part 5, chap. 3, and Meier's Reform 

 der Vervaltung- Organization nnter Stein und Hardenberg, Leipsig, 

 1881. -The present "Municipal Corporation Act," Stcedte-ordnung, 

 was passed May 30, 1853. See Kotze, Die Preussischen Stcedte Ver- 

 fassungen, Berlin, 1879, and Backoffner, Die Steedteordnnngen der 

 Preussischen Monarchic, Berlin, 1880, and especially Eugen Leidig's 

 Preussisches Stadtrecht, Berlin, 1891. See also the articles on local 

 government in Prussia cited above. 



d. Other Foreign Cities. 



Statistics of all important German cities are given in Dr. M. Neefe's 

 Statistisches JaJirbuch Deutscher Stcedte, Erster Jahrgang, Breslau, 

 1890. Financial statistics of the great European cities are given in 

 Joseph Korosi's Bulletin Annual de Finance des Grandes Villes, Dix- 

 ieme Annee, Budapest, 1890. 



