Municipal Program: Report of a Committee of the National Municipal League, Adopted by the League, November 17, 1899, Together with Explanatory and Other Papers (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Municipal Program: Report of a Committee of the National Municipal League, Adopted by the League, November 17, 1899, Together With Explanatory and Other Papers

American municipal government has its historical origin in the chartered boroughs or municipal corporations1 established in several of the English colonies during the seventeenth and eighteenth cen turies. Records Show the creation by charter of twenty such cor porations; but of these. Two had merely an ephemeral existence.2 and three others were of slight importance during the colonial period.3 Of the active boroughs, the first in time was New York, which dates its civic existence from 1653, became an English mu nicipal corporation in 1665, and received its first charter in 1686. Albany received its charter in the same year as New York; the first recorded charter of Philadelphia was granted in 1691 four smaller boroughs were incorporated in Pennsylvania, ' and five in New Jersey while in the Southern States there were Annapolis in Maryland, and Norfolk, Williamsburg, and Richmond in Virginia. The latest charter in colonial times was that of Trenton, N. J granted in 1746.

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