История Лунинецкого местного самоуправления. 1842–1939 гг. – часть 2

Abstract

A local government is an association of persons of public law, based on community of interests of residents of a territory determined as units of the administrative and territorial division. It is regulated and administered by organs chosen by residents on their own territory, under control of suitable government organs within the framework of authorizations determined in state law. It acts in its own name, on its own territory and on its own responsibility. It possesses assets and budget, earnings and expenses. The author of the elaboration set the task of examining of the formation and functioning of local government structures on the example of one region and the city of today’s Belarus – Łuniniec. In compliance with the announcement presented in the first number in 2021 of our periodical, we give the second part of history of Łuniniec local government (1842–1939) to your hands. There are presented following issues: history of the local government on area of Łuniniec district, in the interwar period, the administrative and territorial devision and population of Łuniniec area within the period of the Second Polish Republic; the creation and organization of the local government in Poleskie voivodeship in 1919–1926 and its structure, the authorities of the city in 1919–1926 and finance which the local government had at its disposal in 1919–1926.