(2) The amount of money voted to each of the various spending departments, as schools, roads, parks, etc.
(3) Such measure of oversight and control of the departments as is necessary to preserve a general unity and harmony, but no more.
THE DEPARTMENTS.
These are divided into various groups—for example:
(A) Public Control.
(B) Engineering.
(C) Social Purposes.
GROUP A, PUBLIC CONTROL.
This group may consist of the following sub-groups:
| Finance. | Assessment. |
| Law. | Inspection. |
Finance.
Into this department are paid, after making provision for landlord's rent and sinking fund, all rate-rents; and out of it the necessary sums for the various departments are voted by the Central Council.
Assessment.
This department receives all applications from would-be tenants, and fixes the rate-rent to be paid—such rate-rents not, however, being fixed arbitrarily by the department, but upon the essential principle adopted by other Assessment Committees—the really determining factor
