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 622 AUSTRIA

The total number of uieinbers is distributed as follows : Lower Austria 64, or 1 for every 55,185 subjects of the State; Upper Austria 22, or 1 for 38,773 ; Salzburg 7, or 1 for 30,677 ; Styria 30, or 1 for 48, 139 ; Carinthia 10, or 1 for 39,620 ; Carniola 12, or 1 for 73,833 ; Trieste 5, or 1 for 45,902 ; Gorz and Gradisca 6, or 1 for 43,454 ; Istria 6, or 1 for 67,261 ; Tyrol 25, or 1 for 37,865 ; Vorarlberg 4, or 1 for 36,352 ; Bohemia 130, or 1 for 52,074 ; Moravia 49, or 1 for 53,516 ; Silesia 15, or 1 for 50,443 ; Galicia 106, or 1 for 75,714 ; Bukowina 14, or 1 for 57,150 ; Dalmatia 11 or 1 for 58,697 ; Total 516, or 1 for 55,372. The duration of the Lower House of the Reichsratli is for the term of six years. Members of the Lower House receive 20 ciowns 16.^. 8d.) for each day's attendance, with an indemnity for travelling expenses. In case of dissolution new elections must take place within six months. The Emperor nominates the president and vice-president of the Upper House of the Reichsrath, while those of the Lower House are elected by the members. It is incumbent upon the head of the State to assemble the Reichsrath annually. All constitutional matters con- cerning rights, duties and interests that are common to all provinces of Austria Proper must be regulated by the Reichsrath. To give validity to bills j)assed by the Reichsrath, the consent of both Chambers is required, as well as the sanction of the head of the State. The members of both the Upper and the Lower House have the right to propose new laws on subjects within the competence of the Reichsrath.

Lower House (June, 1911): German Nationalists, 100 ; Christian Socialists (German), 73 ; German Social Democrats, 49 ; United Bohemian Club, 84 ; Bohemian Social Democrats, 25 ; Poles, 70 ; Polish Social Democrats, 9 ; Ukraine Union, 28 ; Croatio-Slavonian Club, 27 ; Dalmatians, 7 ; Unio- latina, 21 ; Independents, 23.

The Ministry for Austria Proper is as follows, November, 1911 : —

Premier. — Count Karl Stuergkh.

Minister of the Interior — Dr. Karl Baron Heinold.

,, of Finance. — Wenzel von Zaleski.

,, of Commerce — Dr. Mi.dolf Schuster von Bonnotl.

,, of Justice. — Dr. Viktor von Hochenhurqer.

,, of Instruction. — Dr. Mno: vov Hussarek.

,, of Railways. — Dr. Zdcnko Baron For titer.

,, of Agriculture. — Franz Zenker.

,, of National Defence. — General Fricdrich von Georgi.

,, of Labour. — Ottokar Trnka Minister without Portfolio. — Ladislaus von Dlugoaz.

The Ministers are responsible for acts committed in the discharge of their official functions.

II. Pkovincial Government.

The Provincial Diets are competent to legislate in all matters not expressly reserved for the Reichsrath. They have control over local representative todies, and the regulation of local affairs affecting taxation, the cultivation of the soil, educational, ecclesiastical, and charitable institutions and public works. In Tyrol and Vorarlberg they have the regulation of the defence of the province, and consent to the em]»loynient of the local militia (Landeschiizten) in another province of the Monarchy. Each Provincial Diet consists of one as.senibly, composed (1) of the archl)ishop and bi.shops of the Catholic and Orthodox Greek Churclies ; (2) the rectors of Universities [in Galicia, also the Rector of the technical High School of lieml)erg and the President