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MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS:

THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

FROM

1835 TO 1879,

STATISTICALLY ILLUSTRATED.

BY

J. R. SOMERS VINE, F.S.S.,

Compiler and Editor of the " County Companion and Annual Statistical Chronicle,"
the "Municipal Corporations' Companion and Year Book of
Statistics," &c., &c.

I have no doubt that when this new constitution of the municipal boroughs comes into effect,
we shall find, not only that it will be productive of great improvements, not only that many defects
will be remedied and many abuses corrected, but that the working of the Bill itself will point out
how the whole system may be perfected."-LORD JOHN RUSSELL, in moving the adoption of the
Municipal Reform Bill of 1835.

LONDON:

WATERLOW & SONS LIMITED, LONDON WALL,
GREAT WINCHESTER STREET, AND FINSBURY, E.C.; AND

PARLIAMENT STREET, S.W.

1879.

TO THE

RIGHT HON. RICHARD ASSHETON CROSS, M.P.,

HER MAJESTY'S

SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT,

THESE PAGES

ARE, BY PERMISSION, RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

BY

HIS OBLIGED SERVANT,

THE COMPILER.