Download or read book Eleventh Annual Report on the Statistics of Municipal Finances for City and Town Fiscal Years Ending Between November 30, 1916, and March 31, 1917 (Classic Reprint) written by Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-25 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Eleventh Annual Report on the Statistics of Municipal Finances for City and Town Fiscal Years Ending Between November 30, 1916, and March 31, 1917 Any feeling, therefore, of pride, which we might be disposed to cherish, that the service rendered by the Bureau of Statistics in reforming munici pal accounting procedure has been the result wholly of voluntary action by our cities and towns rather than of initiative taken by the Commonwealth, is dulled by the re ection that all too many of these communities failed to take advantage of the remedy at hand until they were face to face with disaster. Concrete evidence of this distressing fact has been furnished during recent months in the form of deficiencies and shortages in town ac counts aggregating at least the amount in one case al'one being sufficient to have more than paid the cost of auditing the accounts and dis closing the true financial condition of every town Of the Commonwealth. The time has arrived when legislative action which will meet this situation more effectively than is possible under existing statutes is, in my oplnloil, demanded in the interests of the taxpayers and all concerned in a sound administration of municipal affairs. I, therefore, respectfully urge that the Legislature give earnest consideration to this subject. 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."