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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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