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the connecting link between these commissions and the
municipality.
Whatever the amount of liberty the municipal constitution
allows the municipalities in the management of their own affairs,
there are still a few matters in which they are subjected to certain
restrictions. The municipalities are placed under the supervision
of the prefect as highest municipal authority, and he, in that
capacity, has to see that they do not overstep their authority, or
encroach upon the rights of others. Moreover, certain measures,
in order to become valid, require the approval of the prefect or
the government.
Every resolution taken by the Council, i.e. in all more
important matters, has to be communicated to the prefect, who has
a suspensory veto, and can require that the matter shall come
under fresh discussion at a new meeting of the Council, which must
also be done, if the measure is agreed to by a majority of less
than ⅔.
If the resolution is then passed at the new meeting by a
majority of ⅔, it immediately becomes valid, but if not, the
minority have the right to require that the matter shall be brought
before the government, which then has the power to grant or
withhold its approbation of the measure passed.
The royal sanction is, moreover, necessary in every case where
the measure passed by the Council refers to expenditure which is
to be borne by the municipality during a longer period than the
succeeding 5 years, or to the alienation of property. It must,
however, be remarked that the veto can only be used to prevent
a municipality from undertaking new enterprises, or changing the
existing order of things, but, on the other hand, not to impose
upon it the undertaking of a positive action, e. g. paying a sum
of money. The authority of the government is therefore only of
a negative character. In this connection it is deserving of notice
that the sanctioning power accorded to the prefects and the
government has been used with great caution, and that it has seldom
been employed to obstruct measures concerning which there was
a general wish in the municipality. Development has always been
in the direction of fully recognising the municipal self-government;
and on the other side, it must be ackowledged [[** sic = ackn-]] that the fear that,
on account of the self-government allowed them, the municipalities
would bring upon themselves pecuniary burdens that were far too
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