Municipal Reports For The Fiscal Year

"This annual report of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs contains the Minister's accountability statement, the audited consolidated financial statements of the Ministry and a comparison of actual performance results to desired results set out in the Ministry business plan. This Ministry annual report also includes other financial information as required by the Financial Administration Act and Government Accountability Act, either as separate reports or as a part of the financial statements, to the extent that the Ministry has anything to report, and financial information relating to the Improvement Districts' Trust Account and the audited financial statements of the Special Areas Trust Account."--Unedited text from document.

Excerpt from Ninth Annual Report on the Statistics of Municipal Finances for City and Town Fiscal Years Ending Between November 30, 1914, and March 31, 1915 From this presentation it is clearly seen that the function of govern ment which requires the greatest proportion of the total expenditure from revenue for its maintenance continues, as in former years, to be that of educating the people through the medium of the public schools and libraries, there being, indeed, a slight tendency to an increasing proportion Of expenditure for this purpose. The expenditures for the various other functions of government in relation to the total do not, with one ex ception, appear to have varied materially for 1914 from the preceding year, and the slight decrease indicated by the table in some cases is not to be regarded as significant, especially in View of the fact that the period covered by the figures Of 1914 is, for certain towns, less than 12 months because of the closing of the fiscal year 1914 on December 31, in accord ance with the statute. For this reason, therefore, the very marked increase, 'not only in the actual expenditures for charity purposes, but in the relation which the same bear to the total cost Of municipal govern ment, is significant. It is due, of course, to two principal causes, the industrial depression which threw large numbers of persons out of em ployment during the year 1914, necessitating increased expenditures by overseers of the poor, and the first effects of the operation of the Widows' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.