# The Kansas University Quarterly

Author: Various; Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman), 1867-1937 [Editor]

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70765

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## Summary

Porter, gives statistics of local taxation and indebtedness, and a summary of the provisions of the several state constitutions limiting the rate of taxation, the amount of municipal debts, and the purposes for which they may be contracted. See p. 674 for an analysis of the purposes for which the debt outstanding in 1880 was contracted. The Eleventh Census will give similar data. Mr. Porter published an article on municipal debts in the N. Y. Banker’s Magazine for September, 1876, and another in Lalor’s Cyclopædia of Political Science, vol. 1, p. 730. Cf. also his article in the Princeton Review, n. s., vol. 4, p. 172. For a further study of this subject, read Prof. H. C. Adams’s Public D...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 10 gives a brief discussion of the action](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-kansas-university-quarterly-70765/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 1, pp. 66-83, on municipal corporations.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-kansas-university-quarterly-70765/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Volume 7 of the Reports of the Tenth Census, compiled by Robert P.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-kansas-university-quarterly-70765/chapters/1/index.md)