The Burden Of City Indebtedness
A writer in the Cincinnati Commercial figures np more than $540,000,000 of municipal debts owed by forty-one cities in the United States, aggregating about one-fourth of our immense nationnl debt. On every $100 worth of property in these oities the animal tax, respoctively, is thus presented : Albany Í2.41I Uoston $1.37 JWUinore l.ft"V nrooklyn S.24 nBangor 2.50 Buffalo 3.5",V Chicago 1.80 CharlcHtou 2.0Ü Cincinuati (1875).. 2.88 Cleveland 1.81 Detroit 3.92 Klizalwth 2. OH IiuliannpoliH 1.35 Jcracy City 'J.68 IionUvillc Ü.33 Meiuphis 2.00 Milwankee 1. ."f. Mobile : 1.50 Nushvillo 2.1)0 Newark 1.90 New Orlcauü 3.95 New York 2.65 Norfolk 2.00 Philadelphia 2.25 '..rtland 2.50 Providence 1.46 Boqheeter 1.33 Sau Francinco 2.12X St. Louis 3.42 Toledo 4.41
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