Excerpt from A History of the City Government of Cleveland, Ohio: A Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies in Conformity With the Requirements of the Degree of the Doctor of Philosophy, 1902 The powers of the council were enumerated in the charter in detail. These powers may be classified roughly as fol lows. Powers relating to, city property, finance, health, fire, harbors and wharves, justice, licenses and fees, ordi nances, police, public offices and officers, taxes and assess ments, public safety, streets and highways, and public edu cation. This was pre-eminently a period of council government. The mayor held the seal of the city and was the incarnation of its dignity, but aside from his police duties his labors were not onerous, as the greater part of the administrative work was in the hands of the council. Tlhe municipal patronage was at the disposal of the legislative department. It created all subordinate offices and appointed their incumbents. On the organization of the council each year it was deluged with petitions asking for appointment to the subordinate offices at its disposal, from city clerk to bell ringer. This was in keeping with the general practice of municipalities at this time, but the weakness of the system is too apparent to call for any comment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.