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- III. Constitution and Administration. Introd. by E. Hildebrand
- 2. State Administration. By E. Söderberg
- Official Cartography. By A. H. Byström
- State Finances. By Eli F. Heckscher
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STATE FINANCES.
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and small parts of Västergötland, (b) Rock-maps on a scale of 1 : 200 000 for
the greater part of Skåne and south-eastern Småland, southern Öland, and the
eastern part of Blekinge, (c) Geological maps of certain läns and parts of läns.
Under the chairmanship of the head of the General Staff, the heads,
of the Ordnance Survey, the Nautical Chart Office, the Geological Survey,
the Board of Agriculture, the Survey Board, and the Central Bureau of
Statistics form the General Cartographical Commission (Kommissionen
för de allmänna Karlarbetena), whose function is to examine the plans of
operation etc., of the three map offices and in general to express their
opinion on other cartographical questions.
Side by side with the official cartographical work which has been
described above there is a very considerable amount of work done by private
enterprise.
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Remark. Changes in the accompanying key-plan since 1913.
Sheets published (1:100000): 104 Bingsjö "
10’J Alfta
79 Sundsvall | „ ,, „ ,
84 Hudiksvall / North Sweden’
South Sweden.
Sheets surveyed, but not yet published (1:100 000):
87 Fryksände
94 Dalby J- South Sweden.
95 Malung
State Finances.
The financial administration of Sweden presents the peculiarity of
being divided between two mutually independent institutions — viz. the
Public Treasury, under the management of the Government, with the
Exchequer (Statskontoret) as its organ, anrl the National Debt, under the
control of the Riksdag, with the National Debt Board (Rihsfjäldskontoret)
as_ its organ. The National Debt Board was established in 1789, when
the Estates assumed responsibility for the loans which Gustavus III had
made on his own account; and it is still under the direction of seven
delegates appointed by the Riksdag. Its function of administering the State
debt involved two further consequences: on one side, such disbursements
as were intended to be covered by borrowed monies were managed by it,
and, on the other side, the business undertakings of the State and also
those who had borrowed money from the State paid to it certain sums
for the interest and amortization of the National Debt; and moreover
certain sources of State revenue "proper" (such as the "allmänna
bevillningen" down to 1874) were at first paid there. All this in its turn
brought it about that a great part of the revenue and of the expenditure
of the State was entirely ignored in the State Budget, and appeared only
in that of the National Debt; and this rendered a view of the natio-
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