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Excerpt from Report of the Dept of Municipal Affairs of the Province of Alberta, 1916 During the year 1916 our municipal institutions have had ad verse and abnormal conditions to contend against. These conditions have been brought about to a great extent by the great war which is still going on, and also as a result of the inevitable business de pression following a prolonged period of very extensive develop ment. While these conditions have brought financial hardship, yet as far as municipal business is concerned the result has been good in some respects. Many of our municipalities have been taught by the experience they have had during the past year the necessity of getting their business on an absolutely solid foundation. They have had to find out the very smallest amount of money which will enable them to efficiently carry on the business of the municipality. During the period of rapid commercial development the tendency was for municipalities to spend money freely, in some cases too freely. Municipalities that were guilty of this have now been forced to take stock of their assets, their liabilities, and their future development. This study of conditions has resulted in the reduction, to a great extent, of the amount of the annual expenditure, and while this economy no doubt has required sacrifices in a number of ways, it has been accomplished without any loss in the efficiency of the administration. 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.