Excerpt from Special Assessments: Assessments for Benefit as a Means of Financing Municipal Improvements The cost of bridges, when forming an integral part of a street improvement, should be included in the assessment for that improvement. Paying, to some extent at least, the cost of rapid transit lines by assessment on property has recently received consideration. Although no application of this idea has been made up to the present time, two cities, New York and Philadelphia, have included this method Of financing in plans for the future. 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.