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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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m the other.When it chances that on questions ofexpenditure the two Houses are notlikely to favor the same measures, or tooppose the same, the committee thatframes the bills for the action of thebody is constituted by the vote of bothHouses jointly, so that the preponderantmajority in this case furnishes the char- THE NORSE.—SllEDES. 79 acter of the committee, and gives anadvantage to that majority in the ad-ministration of the government. In what we call the administration ofthe government, each of the twenty-four counties into whichSweden is divided has agovernor, called the Land-To him is assigned the pres- Duties of theLandshofdingpowers of theLandsting. shofding. tions concerning the county only, suchas the right to levy and collect taxes,division into parishes, the administra-tion of government in these, etc. Thelaw under which such matters are deter-mined dates back to i 736, but betweenthat date and 1864 many changes andadditions were made, giving new char-acter to the code.
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idency of the local offices within thegiven county. He is assisted by suchofficers as the administration may de-mand. There is, besides, a standingrepresentative of each county, electedby the people of the same, who is amember of the Landsting, or Assembly.Before this body are brought all ques- COURT OF KRONOBERG CASTLE. In the administration of justice thereare three kinds of tribunals, having eachits own peculiarities. First, there is thecourt called Haradsratter, organization of 1 • , 1. ^^„ Swedish inferior bemg a county court, con- ^^^^^^^. ^^^g^. Sisting of one judge and preme Court. from seven to twelve assessors, or whatthe primitive jurisprudence of the United 80 GREAT RACES OE .UAXKLYD. vStates would call associate judges, hav-ino- their election from the people.Their power when occupying the benchwith the judge is negative rather thanpositive. If they vote unanimously inanv wav against his judgment, hisdecision is thereby annulled. Thesecond courts are the higher courts

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