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Til E ORGANS OF GOVERNMENT.
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affairs as concern the establishment of the
Q-eneral budget, the administration of the
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treasury, public credit, the customs, the excise,
stamps, and other taxes (except that on land),
pilotage, lighthouses and hydrographie works,
banks, commerce, navigation, and commercial
industries.*
To the control section belong* matters relative
to the land tax system, to the levying of taxes,
to the public accounts and to financial control ;
to geodesy and to the government lands and
fisheries.
The military section is responsible for the
preparation of the military budget, and for the
accounts in connection therewith, and it
determines all questions as to the management of
the troops and military establishments. It has
also to see to the application of the law for
compulsory military service.
The section of public worship ancl instruction
* Since October, 1888, part of the business of the section for
home affairs has been transferred to the recently instituted
" chancery sectionand a new " section of commerce and
industry " has taken over much of the work formerly assigned to
the financial section.—( Translator’s note.)
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