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in Municipal Government," beginning in the number for October, 

 1874, and ending in the number for October, 1876. On the same 

 subject cf. A. H. Green's "Three Years' Struggle with Municipal Mis- 

 rule in New York City, a Report made by the Comptroller to the 

 Board of Aldermen," February x8, 1875, and S. J. Tilden's "Munici- 

 pal Corruption," Law Magazine and Review, n. s. vol. 2, p. 525, Lon- 

 don, 1873. See also Geo. H. Andrews's Twelve Letters on the Future 

 of New York, N. Y., 1877. The entire second volume of the Statutes 

 of New York for 1882 is devoted to the present charter of the City of 

 New York, or the "Consolidated Act," as it is called. The Investi- 

 gation of the Department of Public Works in 1884 was printed in Sen- 

 ate Doc. No. 57, 1884; and the investigation by the committee, of 

 which Theodore Roosevelt was chairman, was reported in Assembly 

 Docs. Nos. 125, 153, and 172, 1884. The Report of the Investiga- 

 tion of the New York Consolidated (ras Company forms Senate Doc. 

 No. 47, 1886. The committee found that in 1883 the gas trust 

 declared dividends of from 23 to t,t, per cent. A pamphlet by Wm. 

 M. Ivins on "The Municipal Debt and Sinking Fund of the City of 

 New York" contained an argument on hearing before the Governor, 

 June 2, 1885, and an historical review of the funded debt and of the 

 operation of the sinking-fund since its foundation. Of recent articles 

 on cost and methods of elections cf. W. M. Ivins's articles cited 

 above; Theodore Roosevelt's "Machine Politics in New York City" 

 in the Century, November, 1886, vol. 33, p. 74; E. S. Nadal's "The 

 New York Aldermen" in the Forum, September, 1886, vol. 2, pp. 

 49-59; Howard Crosby's "Letter to the People of New York" in 

 the Forum, December, 1886, vol. 2, pp. 420-28; J. B. Bishop's 

 "Money in City Elections," an address read before the Common- 

 wealth Club in New York, March 21, 1887, reported in the Evening 

 Post and printed separately; the same writer's "The Law and the 

 Ballot," Scribner's Magazine, February, 1888, vol. 3, p. 194; and the 

 Nation, vol. 44, pp. 180 and 204; A. C. Bernheim's "Party Organiza- 

 tions and their Nomination to Public Ofifice in New York City" in 

 the Political Science Quarterly, March, 1888, vol. 3, pp. 97-122, and 

 the same writer on "The Ballot in New York" in the Political Science 

 Quarterly, March, 1889, vol. 4, pp. 130-52; and Dr. Shaw's "Munici- 

 pal Problems of New York and London " in the Review of Reviews, 

 April, 1892, vol. 5, p. 282. 



/>. Other American Cities. 



Boston. — Report of the Commission on the City Charter and Two 

 Minority Reports (Docs. 120, 146, and 147, 1884). The first Report 



