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Title: Dr. Evans' How to keep well;
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Evans, William Augustus, 1865- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Hygiene Sanitation
Publisher: New York, Pub. for Sears, Roebuck and co. by D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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1904 by Frankfort-on-the-Main. That plan provides that every change in land ownership not dependingon inheritance (that being otherwise provided for) is subject to a city taxof 2 per cent and if since the last preceding transfer there has been anincrease in value of more than 30 per cent of the former price there is anincrement tax as follows: Five per cent for an increase up to 35 per cent,6 per cent for an increase up to 40 per cent, 7 per cent for an increase upto 45 per cent and so on—1 per cent being added for each 5 per cent ofincrease. The limit of the total tax is 25 per cent. This is in addition to the gen-eral increment tax lav/ of the empire, the maximum limit of which is 30per cent. At the end of five years the relation of the general and localincrement taxes is to be adjusted. 1112 HOUSING A second feature of their plan is to nave the city go into the real estatebusiness, in part through that power of excess condemnations (generally held to be illegal in this country).
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v*- D£ ZUYD REVIEH.ofDeLAWAJBE Re,VJR Fig. 472.—William Penns Plan of the City ofPhiladelphia. The system that might serve thesmall city is ill adapted for extension to the large,though even on this little plan the waste and in-effectiveness of straight streets and rectangularblocks, with no diagonals, is obvious. (Charitiesand the Community.) Will our Liverpools try to emulate Liverpool, England, our Berlins theGerman capital? The city owns 2,860 acres be-sides the city forest—about 21per cent of the total acreage.The purpose of securing thisacreage was to prevent undueand unsound speculation byprivate persons and the hold-ing back of property for ex-cessive prices, intermediateagencies enhancing the priceof land. According to Foulke thispolicy was inaugurated in 1898in the German settlement ofIviao Chau in China, wherethe government evidently in-tended to receive part of theincreased values resulting fromthe growth of a new com-munity/ Two cities in Saxonyadopted the plan in 19

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