Excerpt from English Local Government: Statutory Authorities for Special Purposes Much of the work of investigation of these records was done between 1899 and 1908 and we owe thanks, not only to their custodians, by whom we were always courteously received, but also to our helpers in what proved an extensive as well as a protracted task. Among those whose work is embodied in the present volume, we must mention Mr. F. H. Spencer, LL.D., author of fifunicipal' Origins, now in the Ministry of Education; Mrs. Spencer, d.sc. (econ); Miss M. And Miss Hadley, archivist to the London County Council. For criticisms and suggestions, none the less valuable because we have not always implicitly incor porated them, we thank especially Professor Graham Wallas and Mr. Harold Laski, of the London School of Economics and Political Science. To Miss Ivy Schmidt, now Mrs. Bolton, we are. Indebted for much laborious cc-operation, and for the full index. 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.