Description Macmillan, Toronto, 1942, reprint. Hard cover, 186 pages including Appendices. Red boards with black lettering on front and spine; some marks/stains on boards, a bit of corner and lower spine end wear; binding sound. Bit of age-spotting on front and rear pastedowns and endpapers; black & white frontis of King George VI; occasional age spot/smudge, small corner bends, light rippling to upper fore-edge corners, pencil underlines and marginalia on some pages between pp. 140 and 155; remainder of interior clean and unmarked; black & white photo illustrations. ‘People who live in the same community have found it necessary to devise some means of regulating their common affairs. They have been obliged to arrange for security against enemies and marauders, for the protection of their property from fire, for a supply of good water, for the disposal of sewage and garbage, for good roads, for the education of their children, and for many other things. It is the object of this book to explain how they have done this.’ (from Introduction)