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An article by J. R. Berryman on ''Constitutional Restrictions upon 

 Legislation about Municipal Corporations," in the American Law- 

 Review, May- June, 1888, vol. 22, p. 403, may be cited. 



2. statistics. 



The Eleventh Census will give very full statistics of cities, but 

 though some of the results have been announced in bulletins, none of 

 the final reports have yet been issued. These results have been sum- 

 marized by Hon. Carroll D. Wright in the Popular Science Monthly 

 for 1892, vol. 40. On "LTrban Population" see p. 459; on "Social 

 Statistics of Cities" p. 607, and on "Rapid Transit," p. 785. 



The following Reports of the Tenth Census treat of this subject : 

 vol. I, Population; vol. 7, Valuation, Taxation and Indebtedness; 

 vol. 18, Social Statistics of Cities: New England and Middle States 

 (reviewed in the Nation, vol. 44, p. 256); and vol. 19, Social Statistics 

 of Cities : Southern and Western States. 



Scribner's Statistical Atlas of the United States, N. Y., 1883, exhib- 

 its the figures of the census graphically (p. xlv, statistics of popula- 

 tion). Plate 21 illustrates the growth of American cities since 1790. 

 There were then only eight cities of eight thousand inhabitants, and 

 the population of New York was 33,131. Plate 30 gives ratios of dif- 

 ferent nationalities to total population in the largest fifty cities. Plate 

 76 gives net per capita debt in the largest one hundred cities. 



On movement of population see an article by B. G. Magie, Jr., in 

 Scribner's Monthly, January, 1878, vol. 15, p. 418; Prof. Richmond 

 Smith's "Statistics and Economics," p. 264. in vol. 3 of the Publica- 

 tions of the American Economic Association; a study on the "Rise 

 of American Cities" by Dr. A. B. Hart in the Quarterly Journal of 

 Economics, January, 1890, vol. 4, pp. 129-157; an article by Lewis 

 H. Haupt on "The (growth of Great Cities" in the Cosmopolitan for 

 November, 1892, and another by John C. Rose, on "The Decrease of 

 Rural Population" in the Popular Science Monthly for March, 1893, 

 vol. 42, pp. 621-38. Cf. work by E. Levasseur, entitled Les Popula- 

 tions Ur bailies en France, coinparees a eel les tie r Etranger, Paris, 1887. 



The Annual Statistician, published by L. P. McCarty, San Fran- 

 cisco, gives the following statistics for leading cities : Number of votes 

 registered and polled ; number of voting precincts ; strength of police ; 

 losses by fire and number of fire-engines and firemen; value and 

 capacity of gas and water works ; number and character of street 

 lights ; vital statistics ; number of murders, suicides, and executions : 

 length of street railroads and cost of motive power ; telegraph and 

 telephone mileage; number of saloons and cost of licenses; attend- 



