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55ru CONGRESs, SENATE. DOCUMENT
2d Session. No. 238.
VARIOUS FORMS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN TM
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
APRIL 14, 1898.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. MCMILLAN presented the following:
SKETCH OF THE VARIOUS FORMS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, WITH LIST OF WASHINGTON
CITY OFFICIALS APPENDED, BY W. B. BRYAN.
[NO'rE.-This paper was read before the Columbia Historical Society April 4, 1898, and by request
was furnished by the author for publication.]
A complete list of the members of the city councils and of the other
principal officers of the local government of Washington City from its
organization down to the present time does not exist. In the. manu-
script records of the city and in the printed collections of the laws of
the corporation and the proceedings of the legislative assembly may be
found the names of those who have served the city either in legislative
or executive capacities, but such records are not only deficient but they
are not easily accessible, and complete collections of the acts of the city
councils are few in number. Through the efforts of Mr. William Tin-
dall, who has been the secretary of the Board of District Commissioners
since the organization of that form of government, the entire number
(1802-1871) of the acts of the city councils may be found at the District
office, and there is also another collection in the Library of Congress.
I know of no other full sets in this city, and it is growing more difficult
to get together these yearly annals of our city fathers during the period
when Washington had a mayor, a board of aldermen, and a common
council.
They were published annually in pamphlet form, and it appears that
some years small editions were printed, and in consequence the acts of
the councils for those years have now become very scarce. In addition
to the laws, lists of the names of the officers of the corporation were
printed, and during the later years it was the custom to add as an
appendix the annual reports or statements of some of the city officers.
From the manuscript records of the city government, as well as from
the pamphlet editions of the ordinances, Mr. Andrew Rothwell, the com-
piler of one of the digests of the local laws which was published in 1833,
gathered the names of the principal officers of the corporation, includ-
ing those of the members of the city councils, and printed them in an
appendix to the digest.
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