Excerpt from Thirty-Ninth Annual City Report, Berlin, New Hampshire, 1936 In 1933 for example the City paid only 25% of its total relief cost. Unde1 the famous Bill 417, the State of New Hampshire paid 25% and the Federal Government contributed the remaining This accounts for the low cost in that year. Federal and State aid were continued in 1934 which explains the rather low figure of for that year. In 1935 direct Federal aid was Withdrawn from New Hampshire among other states. Our Legisla ture then voted to return relief administration to the towns and counties and at the same time appropriated which was supposed to be sufficient for reimbursement of the local. Com munities by 50% of their relief expenditures. However, increased cost of administration and an increase in the relief load itself notably in Berlin and Manchester exhausted the fund 'by Ocflo-ber 30, 1935. As a result the City of Berlin had-to assume its relief costs 100% for the months {of November, De. Comber and January last. It will be noted also that these months are the most expensive due to winter clothing and fuel. 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.