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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Cambridge a city. (search)
and no free text-books for the youth. And yet the property of Cambridge in 1846 was taxed at the rate of $5 on $1000. It might, indeed, be a natural question to ask why this comparatively high rate was necessary, and for what purposes the young city needed the revenue thus raised. As an answer to this, and also as an indication of what manner and amount of service the municipal government of 1846 afforded, the following table of the expenses of the town and city from March 1, 1846, to March 1, 1847, is given:— Almshouse and roads$11,035.68 Instruction of schools13,089.05 Repairs, etc., of schoolhouses1,865.26 Burial grounds108.38 Interest and bank discounts1,376.00 Poll tax to enginemen177.00 Bell-ringing135.00 Repairs of bridges1,493.23 Salaries of city officers1,900.00 Police and watch2,017.71 Fire department2,751.61 Reservoirs and drains13.71 Incidental expenses4,685.93 Fuel for schools30.12 Board of health46.66 ——– $40,725.34 If the population of Cambrid