Author: George Montagu Harris

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-09-24

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781396375415

Excerpt from Local Government in Many Lands: A Comparative Study IN 1923, the Colonial Office, India Office and Foreign Office undertook at the request of the Royal Commission on Local Government, of which Lord Onslow 1s Chair man, to obtain information of an authoritative character on the systems of local government in force in the British Empire and in a number of foreign countries. It was my duty as an officer of the Ministry of Health to superintend the preparation of certain memoranda, based upon the particulars thus obtained, which have been laid before the Commission. I have been authorised to employ the material furnished to the Commission and available in the Ministry of Health as the basis for the present work, which further includes a chapter on the local government of England and Wales, Scotland, the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.