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NORWAY

Ministry for Commerce, Navigation, Industry and Fishery. — Gert Meyer Bruun.

Ministry for Defence..^- Carl Wilhelm Wearing.

Ministry for Worship and Instruction. — Nils Riddervald Jensen.

Ministry of Public J Forks. — Cornelius MiddHthon.

Ministry for Provi<ioning. — Johan Henrik Rye Holmbne.

II. Local Government.

The administrative division of the country is into twenty districts, each governed- by a chief executive functionary {Fylkesmann), viz., the town of Kristiania and Bergen, and 18 Fylker (counties). There are 42 towns, 23 'Ladesteder,' and 640 rural communes (Herreder), mostly parishes or sub- parishes (wards). The government of the Herred is vested in a body of re- presentatives (from 12 to 48), and a council (Furmannskap), elected by and from among the representatives, who are four times the number of the ' For- mannskap. ' The representatives elect conjointly every third year from among the ' Formannskap ' a chairman and a deputy chairman. All the chairmen of the rural communes of a Fylke form with the Fylkesmann the Fylkesting (county diet), which meets yearly to settle the budget of the Fylke. The towns and the ports form 63 communes, also governed by a council (5 to 21), and representatives (four times the size of the council). The members of the local governing bodies are elected under the same conditions as those of the Storting. Since 1910 women are entitled to vote and to be elected, under the same conditions as men.

Area and Population.

I. PROGRESS AND PRESENT CONDITION.

Fylker

Area : English square miles

Kstimated Population Jan. 1, 1920

Population Dec. 1, 1910

241,834

Pop. pef square mile

1!MU

Kristiania (town)

T-3

260,713

38,386 3

Akershus

. I 2,058

3

171,010

128,042

622

Ostfold.

. I 1,613

7

165,380

152,306

94 l

lledmark

10,625

7

151,936

134,402

12*8

Upland.

9,746

7

130,894

119,236

12-2

Buskerud

I 5,716

2

137,730

123,643

21-6

Vestfold

901

6

124,571

109,076

121-0

Telemark

5,861

6

126,454

108,084

is i

Aust-Agder

3,608

8

80,950

76,456

21-2

Vest-Agder

2,803

9

88,030

82,067

29 •:;

Rogaland

3,530

8

168,650

141,010

399

Ilordaland

6,015

8

160,300

138,543

23-0

Bergen (town)

13

5

90,960

84,330

6,2467

Sogn og Fjord an

7,133

9

92,600

90,040

in;

M'.iv.

5,811

2

Ml, 640

1 11,622

24'B

Sor-Trondelag

7,217

171,732

1 is, 497

20-6

Nord/Triindelag

S,653

8

90,450

84,910

i»-S

Nordland

M,7:;i

5

179,405

1 hi, 396

1 1 -2

Troms.

10,416-5

92,700

82,193

7-9

Finmark

18,535 '0

45,750

38,065

2-1

Total.

1

125.00T3

2,691,855

2,391,782

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