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A Study Of The Government Of The City Of Oberlin, Kansas, Jack S. Cronk
A Study Of The Government Of The City Of Oberlin, Kansas, Jack S. Cronk
Master's Theses
The primary aim of the writer in preparing this thesis has been to investigate the various departments of government of the city of Oberlin, Kansas. This study was not made from the viewpoint of the critical observer interested in uncovering either outstanding efficiencies or inefficiencies. The material presented is submitted for the purpose of collaborating practical knowledge with theoretical knowledge in the study of municipal government.
A Financial Study Of The City Of Hays, Ellis County, Kansas, Lorenze Randall Bingham
A Financial Study Of The City Of Hays, Ellis County, Kansas, Lorenze Randall Bingham
Master's Theses
The great problem of municipal finance with which a majority of our municipalities are confronted at the present time is a problem that can be attacked only through a slow process of analysis and investigation. Slashing of salaries, indiscriminate dispensing with the various services offered by the city in prosperous times, and increasing of bonded indebtedness will not in any sense provide a permanent solution to the problem. The difficulty is in tracing the course of money taken in by the city from its source to its ultimate use in providing that which the citizens demand. When this has been …
The Sheriff's Office Of Ellis County, Kansas, Eugene A. Mcfarland
The Sheriff's Office Of Ellis County, Kansas, Eugene A. Mcfarland
Master's Theses
This study has been made in the field of local government. It deals only with the sheriff's office in Ellis county , Kansas. The statutes of Kansas and their application and function show that this office is primarily the same today as it was in England in the seventeenth century. A study of the sheriff's office relates that the powers and duties are similar in Ellis county to those in England when the sheriff was a servant of the King and his court. Frequent changes have been made but the facts still remain that one of the main defects is …