Making these boxes became quite a cottage industry in the Bavarian regions, often with the boxes being constructed by one family and then sent to a schachtelmaler, or box-painter, for decoration. 1. This top of this stunning box is decorated with the figures of a gentleman and two young women.
Municipal Budgets Per Capita. Excluding police and firefighter pensions, towns and cities in Lake County spent, on average, $359 per resident in 2003. (Data for Lake Station were not available at the time the analysis was conducted.) Two cities exceeded this average by wide margins (see Figure 1).
More than 12,000 local police departments were operating in the United States during 2013. A local police department is a general purpose law enforcement agency, other than a sheriffs office, that is operated by a unit of local government, such as a town, city, township, or county.