James Ernest Boyle
Published: 2015-08-04
Total Pages: 202
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Excerpt from The Financial History of Kansas, Vol. 5 I have used the words "financial history" in a somewhat broad sense. The subject includes, as I have treated it, a consideration of both state and local finances. The word municipality, as used throughout this discussion, applies to any local division of the State, whether a county, township, school district or city. These terms are defined here at the outset, since usage has not yet established uniform meanings for them. The aim of this work is similar to that of any other standard history, namely, to report and explain facts. It is an attempt, therefore, to trace as faithfully as possible the financial history of the State. Events bearing directly and indirectly on the financial life of the State are narrated and with as little trespassing as possible on the domain of political history. However, financial causes are not divorced from their effects, whether these effects be political, social or economic. The arrangement of the work is according to the topical and chronological requirements of the subject-matter. An appendix is given at the end, containing valuable statistical data, only part of which appear in the body of the work. A bibliography is also added, showing the sources of information. Itemized receipts and expenditures have not been tabulated in the usual form, the state system (or rather, lack of system) of accounting rendering such a tabulation useless. 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.