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facilities (including power supply, as well as a clear path); and, finally, education and recreation."

The tremendous advances of municipal government during the present century can be best and most graphically demonstrated by a comparison of the respective budgets of a single city for the years 1800 and 1899. Let us take Philadelphia as an example. According to Allinson & Penrose, in their work on the 'Government of Philadelphia' (pages 115-116), the budget for the former year as contained in the ordinance of February 20, 1800, was as follows

The expenditures for 1899 (exclusive of the amounts appropriated for the maintenance of the county offices) were: