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municipal election is to take place, to the voters to propose party lists,
which are to be signed, in the country bv at least 10, and in
towns by at least 20 voters, and must be filled in with as many
different names, or repetitions of names (cumulation), as there are
councillors to be elected. The election committee examines the
lists, and sees that they are according to law. whereupon the lists are
published as official lists some time before the election takes place.
Any voter is at liberty to use as his voting-paper one of the
official lists (either unaltered or with the erasure of some names
and repetition of others), or any other voting-paper. The counting
of the ballots, to find out the ratio that determines the strength
of the various parties in the council, is done according to
d’Hondt’s method, with a modification from the system of the
Swiss professor, Hagenbach-Bischoff.
With regard to the relations between the aldermen and the
Council, the former body is the administering part of the
representation, and the one that performs, so to speak, the daily work in the
municipal administration. It is generally the business of the
aldermen to administer the affairs of the municipality, maintain its
rights, and in all respects generally to watch over its interests and
welfare. It is therefore, as a rule, the aldermen too, from whom
the initiative comes for the making of necessary improvements in
the municipality, or for the executing of any useful plans. All
applications and communications concerning the municipality must
be made to the aldermen, by whom all matters will be discussed
and prepared. Furthermore, the aldermen in the towns form,
together with the magistracy, the connecting link between the
municipality and the central administration, and as such have to
give explanations and declarations with regard to circumstances
that affect the municipality, and concerning which the authorities
desire information. The aldermen see, moreover, that the
municipal accounts are rendered, and appoint the employees of the
municipality.
Although the aldermen occupy an important position in the
municipal organisation, yet the centre of gravity must be said to
be in the Council, more especially as its co-operation is necessary
in most matters that concern the finances of the municipality.
In other words, the power to vote supplies, the vital nerve
in popular government, is mainly in the hands of the Council.
The rule is that if the matter about which a determination is to
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