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• Report of the Executive Committee, presented 12th December, 1918 [electronic resource]. ([Montréal? : s.n, 1918?]), by Fair Franchise League (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The functions of the municipality with special reference to public services [electronic resource] / ([S.l. : s.n., 1904?]), by James Mavor and National Municipal League (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Regulation of public service companies in Great Britain, with supplemental chapters on the Boston sliding scale and Toronto auction sale and maximum dividend plans, (New York, Public Service Commission for the First District, 1914), by Robert Harvey Whitten and New York (State). Public Service Commission. First District (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Committee on franchises of the National municipal league : submitted at the Conference for good city government held at Toronto, November, 1913. ([Philadelphia?] : [publisher not identified], [1914?]), by National Municipal League. Committee on Franchises (page images at HathiTrust)
• Video franchising : hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, February 15, 2006. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2006), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)
• The street surface railway franchises of New York City (New York : AMS Press, [1969]), by Harry J. Carman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Electric franchises in New York City (New York : AMS Press, [1969]), by Leonora Arent (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Public utility advice from the public point of view, (New York, 1913), by Delos F. Wilcox (page images at HathiTrust)
• A bibliography of municipal utility regulation and municipal ownership [microform], (Cambridge, Harvard University Press; [etc., etc.], 1918), by Don Lorenzo Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinion of Daniel B. Tallmadge, Esq. in relation to the constitutional powers of the legislature, to take from the city of New York, the ferry franchise, between New York and Brooklyn : prepared at the request of the mayor of New York. (New York : [s.n.], 1835), by Daniel Bryant Tallmadge and Seymour B. Durst (page images at HathiTrust)
• A practical solution of the public utility problem. An explanation of Illinois Senate Bill no. 301. (Chicago : Public Policy Pub. Co., [1903]), by Allen Ripley Foote and statutes Illinois. Laws (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elements of a constructive franchise policy : a paper read before the National Municipal League, at the Buffalo meeting, November 15th, 1910 / ([New York?] : [s.n.], 1910?), by Delos F. Wilcox and National Municipal League (page images at HathiTrust)
• Standards for modern public utility franchises, (New York, Municipal Administration Service, 1930), by John Bauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Proposed standard form of street railway franchise for use by the city of New York. ([New York], [1910]), by New York (State). Public Service Commission. First District (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Yerkes bill : answer of the Chicago Committee of One Hundred / (Chicago : [The Committee], 1897), by Josiah L. Lombard and Chicago Committee of One Hundred (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public service commission laws. A comparison of the laws of New York, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Maryland, (Columbus, F. J. Heer Print. Co., 1911), by John A. Lapp and Ohio State Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Franchises of electrical corporations in Greater New York; a report submitted to the Public Service Commission for the First District, (New York, 1911), by New York (State). Public Service Commission. 1st District and Milo Roy Maltbie (page images at HathiTrust)
• O concurso da viação americana. Exposição dos direitos da Companhia carris de ferro do Porto, (Porto, Typographia a vapor da Empreza Guedes, 1906), by Bernardo Lucas, Campanhia carris de ferro do Porto, Companhia carril americano do Porto á Foz e Mattozinhos, and Porto (Portugal). Câmara Municipal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A compilation of laws affecting the regulation of public utilities. (Madison, Wis., Democrat Printing Company, state printer, 1909), by Wisconsin, Wisconsin. Railroad commissioners, and Railroad Commission of Wisconsin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report. ([New York.), by New York (N.Y.). Bureau of Franchises (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laws, ordinances and permits dealing with rights, privileges and franchises of public service corporations in Kansas City, Missouri, ([Kansas City, The Western Baptist publishing co., 1912]), by etc Kansas City (Mo.). Laws and Mo.) Public Utilities Commission (Kansas City (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of public franchises in New York City : boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx / (New York : Reform Club Committee on City Affairs, 1900), by Gustavus Myers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Municipal ownership and operation of public utilities in New York City, ([New York, Municipal Ownership Publishing Co., c1905]), by Samuel Seabury (page images at HathiTrust)
• A compilation of the laws relating to the regulation of public utilities (including water powers), 1907-1919. ([Madison?], 1920), by Wisconsin, W. J. Anderson, and Railroad Commission of Wisconsin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Code of franchises, pub. by directions of the Council of the city of Cincinnati, (Cincinnati, Roessler bros., 1914), by Cincinnati (Ohio). City Council and Arthur Espy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the Conference of American Mayors on public policies as to municipal utilities. (Philadelphia, American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1915), by Philadelphia Conference of American Mayors and American Academy of Political and Social Science (page images at HathiTrust)
• Concessions at Yosemite National Park : Oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session ... hearing held in Washington, DC, January 9, 1991. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1993), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report upon proposed standard form of franchise for street railroad companies, (New York, 1909), by New York (State). Public Service Commission. First District (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the law of public utilities operating in cities and towns / (Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill Co., [cl9l3]), by Oscar L. Pond (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Minneapolis street railway and the new franchise : an analysis / (Minneapolis, Minn. : [Pioneer Printers], [1919]), by George B. Leonard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minutes ... financial and franchise matters ... ([New York, 1906-), by New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and Apportionment (page images at HathiTrust)
• List of franchises granted by the City council of the city of Chicago, from March 4, 1837, to April 10, 1896. (Chicago, J.F. Higgins, printer, 1896), by Chicago (Ill.). City Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book of franchises granted by the board of supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco, including street and steam railroad, telephone, telegraph and miscellaneous franchises, pipe line, spur track and miscellaneous permits. (San Francisco : [s.n.], 1910), by San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Supervisors (page images at HathiTrust)
• Franchise facts; ([Kansas City, Mo., Brown-Vaughan Printing Co.], 1909), by James W. S. Peters (page images at HathiTrust)
• The regulation of municipal utilities / (New York, London : D. Appleton and Company, 1923), ed. by Clyde L. King (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The street railway question in Chicago, ([Boston?, 1907]), by John A. Fairlie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur les concessions d'éclairage et notament sur la concurrence électrique, (Paris [etc.] Berger-Levrault et cie, 1900), by Jean Cruveilhier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Regulation of public utilities: a comparison of the New York and the Wisconsin public utilities bills, (Columbus, F. J. Heer Print. Co., 1911), by Allen Ripley Foote and Ohio State Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Municipal franchises : a description of the terms and conditions upon which private corporations enjoy special privileges in the streets of American cities / (Rochester, N.Y., The Gervaise press; New York, Engineering news book department, 1910-11), by Delos F. Wilcox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Railroad Commission of Wisconsin on indeterminate permits in Wisconsin. (Madison, Wis. : The Commission, 1929), by Railroad Commission of Wisconsin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A compilation of laws affecting the regulation of public utilities (including water powers) 1907-1911. (Madison, Wis. : Railroad Commission of Wisconsin, [1911]), by Wisconsin and Railroad Commission of Wisconsin (page images at HathiTrust)
• State and territorial general statutes relating to the use of streets and highways by street railway, gas, water and electric light companies. (Chicago, Ill., H. M. Byllesby & company, 1905), by James Sheldon Cummins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Regulation of urban utilities in Iowa, (Iowa City, Ia., State Historical Society of Iowa, 1912), by E. H. Downey and State Historical Society of Iowa (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the law of public utilities, including motor vehicle transportation, airports and radio service, (Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill company, [c1932]), by Oscar L. Pond (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Regulation of municipal utilities / (New York ; London : D. Appleton, 1914, c1912), by Clyde L. King and National Municipal League (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Public ownership vs. regulated natural monopolies; a paper submitted to the League of American Municipalities at its third annual convention, September 19-22, 1899, Syracuse N.Y. ([Chicago, Other Side Publishing Co., 1899]), by Allen Ripley Foote (page images at HathiTrust)
• Resolutions of the Board of Estimate, City of New York, relating to franchises, revocable privileges and rapid transit routes pursuant to the provisions of the New York City charter and the Rapid Transit Act, approved by the Mayor. ([New York]), by New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and New York (N.Y.). Franchise Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Preliminary report on local transportation policy, ([Los Angeles?, 1927?]), by Delos F. Wilcox (page images at HathiTrust)
• An equitable solution of the public utility and conservation problems, ([Waukesha? Wis., 1914?]), by Andrew Jay Frame (page images at HathiTrust)
• "No politics but the city's good." How should the franchise question be settled? (Chicago, The William Hughes publishing co., 1899), by Allen Ripley Foote (page images at HathiTrust)
• The public utility franchise, its functions and terms under state regulation, (Chicago, Ill., Public administration service, 1946), by John Bauer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Official transactions in relation to the city of Adrian and Adrian, Michigan, Water Works : also franchise of Adrian City Electric Belt Railway Company. (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Thievery" Mayor Pingree's notable address in Chicago. A stolen horse may be recovered, but the thieves keep a stolen franchise, and the thieves in time grow rich and respectable. Corporations and boards of aldermen in collusion to rob the people. Some remedies for it suggested by the mayor of Detroit. ([Detroit, 1896]), by Hazen S. Pingree (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ordinances of the city of Milwaukee granting franchises for quasi-public purposes, up to and including those passed June 8, 1896. With an index. (Milwaukee, E. Keogh, printer, 1896), by etc Milwaukee (Wis.) Ordinances (page images at HathiTrust)
• The indeterminate permit in relation to home rule and public ownership : a report prepared for the Public ownership league of America / (Chicago : Public Ownership League of America, 1926), by Delos F. Wilcox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minor highway privileges as a source of city revenue. A report of the National Municipal League Committee on Sources of Revenue ... (New York : National Municipal League, 1923), by National Municipal League. Committee on sources of revenue (page images at HathiTrust)
• Duration of municipal street grants, (Detroit, Mich. : For the author by Record printing co., 1910), by Fred Abbott Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• La révocation des permissions de voirie (étude de jurisprudence) (Paris : Rousseau et cie, 1923), by Achille Mestre and Achille Mestre (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Revised ordinances of 1916. (New Bedford, Mass. : E. Anthony & Sons, Incorp., Printers, 1916), by New Bedford (Mass.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the law of public utilities, including motor vehicle transportation, (Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill company, [c1925]), by Oscar L. Pond (page images at HathiTrust)
• The street surface railway franchises of New York city / (New York : [s.n.], 1919), by Harry J. Carman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A bibliography of municipal utility regulation and municipal ownership, (Cambridge, Harvard university press; [etc., etc.], 1918), by Don Lorenzo Stevens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kont︠s︡essionnoe pravo Soi︠u︡za S.S.R. S prilozheniem deĭstvui︠u︡shchikh zakonov o pori︠a︡dke predostavlenii︠a︡ kont︠s︡essiĭ. (Moskva, Izdatelʹstvo "Pravo i zhiznʹ", 1925), by B. A. Landau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Municipal ownership and municipal franchises] (Philadelphia, American academy of political and social science, 1906), by American Academy of Political and Social Science (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Economic legislation of all the states; the law of incorporated companies operating under municipal franchises, such as illuminating gas companies, fuel gas companies, electric central station companies, telephone companies, street railway companies, water companies, etc., preceded by a suggestive discussion of the economic principles involved in the operation, control, and service of such companies, (Cincinnati, R. Clarke & Co., 1892-93), by Allen Ripley Foote and Charles E. Everett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The public utility franchise in Maryland; scope and limitations. (College Park, Bureau of Governmental Research, College of Business and Public Administration, University of Maryland, 1963), by Robert J. Sickels (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The regulation of municipal utilities, (New York and London, D. Appleton and company, 1912), by Clyde L. King (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A handbook for public utility franchises. (Boulder, Co., 1954), by Colorado Municipal League (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Electric franchises in New York city, (New York, Columbia university; [etc., etc.], 1919), by Leonora Arent (page images at HathiTrust)
• The street surface railway franchises of New York City, (New York, Columbia University; [etc.], 1919), by Harry J. Carman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the law relating to electricty. / (Boston : Little, Brown, 1895), by Simon Greenleaf Croswell (page images at HathiTrust)

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