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III. CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATION.
Table 56.
Expenditure
1876—80
1881-85
Annual Expenditure for
Kronor
Kronor
Ecclesiastical purposes......................................9 029 000 9 644 00
Elementary schools........................................8 249 000 9 986 001
Poor relief................................................7 377 000 8 656 00
Pnblic health..............................................1 564 000 1 72100
Technical and higher schools................................604 000 644 001
Public buildings............................................10 301 000 13 69300
Other purposes............................................8 439 000 10 481 OOl
Total 45 563 000 54825001
The towns, moreover, unlike the country districts, appoint a number
of special boards for certain purposes, such as Poor Relief, Public Health,
Building, Fire Service etc., all of which fall under the supervision of the
Magistracy. For towns, there are also special Police Regulations issued
for the maintenance of public safety, which it is the duty of the Police
authorities to apply. — In this respect also Stockholm differs to some
extent from the other towns, inasmuch as it has a greater number of
special boards. In general it may be said that in Stockholm the
administrative sphere of the Town Council is greater, while that of the
Magistracy is smaller, than in other towns.
Since 1909 duly-qualified women (vis. entitled to vote) have enjoyed
the same franchise as similarly-qualified men in all the communal
business of both urban and rural communes. About 50 women have been
made members of Town Councils; and in many places women are members
of School Boards and Boards of Guardians.
E. Certain details with regard to the finances of the communes are
given in Tables 55—57. These also include the sums administered by
the ecclesiastical authorities of the parishes.
The rate-income of the communes, as appears from Table 55, amounted during
the year 1876—80 to about 231/8 million kronor a year, and during the year
1911 to 89 million kronor.
Among the real property assets for 1911 included in Table 57 the elementary
school buildings are calculated at 114’0 million kronor, poor relief institutions
at 39’3 million kronor, borough court buildings, town halls and parish halls at
23’5 millions, hospitals in the towns at 23’5 millions, secondary school buildings
in the towns at 23"9 millions, gas-works and electricity-works at 53’3 millions,
and water-works at 52’5 millions etc. Amongst the assets included in Table 57
are not comprised real property and funds that are under the administration but
not at the disposal of the communes: under this heading fall churches, with a
value of 135’9 million kronor, ecclesiastical residences etc. with a value of 72’6
millions, and endowments amounting to 87’2 millions — or 295’7 million kronor
altogether. If these values be added to the assets which stand entirely at the
disposal of the communes (874’8 million kronor in Table 57), the gross total
will be 1 170’5 million kronor.
The great forest funds which certain communes in Dalarne and Norrland
(or more properly speaking the landowners within these communs) have acquired
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