Consular Reports Volume 28; Commerce, Manufactures, Etc (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...is of a greater import than street pavement. The financial administration of Berlin is, which is often not considered in comparison with other cities (the high additional taxes of which are liked to be cited in l'avor of Berlin's administration), much facilitated by the fact that the state pays a yearly amount of 7,000,000 of marks for personal (salaries, etc.) expenditures on acconnt of the municipal police administration, while the city pays only 2,400,000 marks of impersonal expenses for the sake of fire and night-watch administration. " It was not until the present legislation (since 1875) was inaugurated that the construction of streets was facilitated, and great priveleges were granted to the administration over and against adjacent streets. Not until since then these adjacents are bound to give gratuitously territory for new streets, to pay the construction of the sewerage of the streets, and to maintain the streets for rive years. Besides this the state treasury pays to the city an annuity, in all 800.000, for the assumed duty to construct such roads as formerly belonged to the state (fiscal roads). The care for the economical ends of the city, however, does not exhaust the duty of tho admiuistratiou, which to a much greater extent has to exercise also a magistrate authority, and to which both under the old and recent economical laws a number of duties have been assigned to the city government--duties which show how important it is, whether or not the city authorities evince a friendly disposition towards them. The magistracy possesses the magistratic supervisory right over the guilds, has to decide disputes between employers and their working people; the city committee, appointed by the magistracy, has important functions as police authority o...