Bulletin Volume 111-121 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... February 1, 1912, and January 31, 1913. The date given in Table 1 is in each case that for the city corporation. A common date for the close of the fiscal years of all divisions, funds, and accounts of cities would greatly facilitate the compilation of comparable statistics. Several states have statutes providing for such a date for their cities, and the enactment of-similar laws is being urged in Massachusetts and several other states. ' Form qfgovernment.-In connection with such data as has heretofore been included in census reports of cities, this bulletin gives the information which has been secured relative to the form of government under which each of the 195 municipalities was operated in 1912, showing that at the close of that year 43 of these' municipalities had adopted and were being operated under the commission form of government. Population.-Table 1 shows for each of the municipalities the estimated population as of July 1, 1912, and the population as returned by the decennial census of April 15, 1910. The estimates of population shown for 1912 are, in the case of cities which had at that time the same territorial area as in 1900, based upon the assumption that the increase in the population of a municipality during the period April 15, 1910, to July 1, 1912, was the same as the average increase during a similar period between the census enumeration of June 1, 1900, and that of April 15, 1910, or of the increase between those dates, or a proportional part of the total increase shown by the Federal census of 1910 as compared with the enumeration of a state census in 1904 or 1905. In computing these estimates for cities whose territorial area has been enlarged or diminished since the Federal census of 1900 or...