Iceland 1930

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Identifikator:: 1830571079

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221162

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Iceland 1930

Edition:: 2. ed.

Place of publication:: Reykjavík

Publisher:: Ríkisprentsmiđjan Gutenberg

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 193 S.; Tab., Kt., Taf.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Constitution and law

Collection:: Economics Books

315 trative auditing; banks; savings banks; the survey, measurement and registration of vessels. By the side of the Ministry of Finance is the Statistical Bureau, a separate institution under the minister of Finance. LOCAL GOVERNMENT As regards the participation of the State in Local Government, the country is divided into 16 districts (syslur) each of which is administered by a district magistrate (spslumadur), and 8 towns, administered by town magistrates (Reykjavik has also a chief of police at the head of affairs), over whom the ministries exercise direct control. Both district and town magistrates have a great variety of administrative work to attend to, but their chief business is the collection of taxes and customs and police administration. To assist the district magistrates, especially in police administration, there are the government-paid sheriffs (hreppstjérar)s one in each civil parish (hreppur), while the town magistrates are assisted by the police who are paid out of the muni- cipal funds. According to the constitution the right of the municipalities to manage their own local affairs is to be fixed by an act of parliament. For local administrative purposes Iceland is divided into 24 districts and towns. The districts are again subdivided into civil parishes, of which there are at present 203. Parish councils, chosen by the vo- ters, manage the various affairs of the parishes, chief among which are poor relief and local roads. The means for covering the parish ex- penditure are obtained by levying taxes on the voters. The district affairs are managed by a district council (sgslunefnd) composed of representatives for all the parishes in the district (one for each parish). The district magistrate presides over the district council, which manages all matters concerning the district as a whole, and supervises the work of the parish councils, from which an appeal lies to the district councils in various matters. The municipal affairs of the towns are guided by town councils, chosen by the voters, In some of the towns these councils are presided over by the town magistrate, in others by a mayor, elected by the town council- lors. Both district and town councils are under the supervision of the central government to which, in case of disagreement, questions may be submitted for settlement.

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