CHAPTER IX
PORT ORGANIZATION
IN this chapter attention will be directed to the remaining
two divisions of port administration enumerated at the
beginning of Chapter VIIL.
MANAGEMENT
In regard to each form of port control discussed in
the preceding sections, the question of operation resolves
itself into the selection of an appropriate and convenient
system of organization. With so many variations fundamental
 in character, it would be idle to expect, or to
attempt to devise, a single system capable of adaptation
to all these forms, and space will not admit of anything
approaching a complete review of those systems which
are in actual practice.’ We must content ourselves here
with a single case, and, for this purpose, will take the
autonomous port authority as a representative model.
Committees. For working purposes, as already indicated,
the Board of an Autonomous Authority will be divided
into a series of committees. There will be a General
Committee to deal with questions of policy and to recommend
 to the Board the lines upon which the port should
be administered, especially in regard to the requirements
of trade, necessitating from time to time the development
of facilities and extension works, though the latter may be
the special province of a Works and Improvements
Committee. A Finance Committee will take charge of
the pecuniary side of the undertaking, and it will be their
business to strike a balance between revenue and expenditure,
 contriving ways and means of providing funds
! The student will find in the author's Port Administration and
Operation a more detailed consideration of the subject, with
diagrams of several typical organizations.

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