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ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANISATION. 127
ciple of self-government, but the administration
of tlie provinces is carried on without tlie
cooperation of tlie population.
Tlie governor’s functions are very numerous :
He must see to tlie public order and safety,
and to the maintenance of roads and bridges ;
He is the head of all the provincial police
branches ;
He executes the sentences of tribunals ;
He orders the levying of distress and
executions ;
He supervises, by means of Crown
inspectors, the tenants of Crown lands ;
He administers the State grain stores ;
He controls the collection of direct taxes
and excise, and the administration of the
provincial pay-offices ;
He presides over the higher recruiting
commission ;
He is the agent of the Senate in all
matters for which the province has 110 special
officials or agents ;
The decisions of the communes in certain
cases require the governor’s sanction ;
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