Administrative supervision over the activities of the city self-governments of the Ekaterinoslav province (1870 –1913) (part 2)

Abstract

The article reveals the importance of administrative supervision over city self-governments in the Ekaterinoslav Province (1870–1913). State control institutions generally did not interfere with the budget policy of mu-nicipal self-government institutions and its humanitarian component, although misunderstan-dings sometimes arose. It has been proved thatthe public administrations of the Province widely used the legally re-gulated opportunity to defend their decisions in the Senate. The specific Senate cases started in connection with the supervision over the legality of decisions of city self-governments and the provincial presence for the zemstvo and city affairs give the impression that they were consi-dered on the basis of a qualified verification of compliance with imperial law. It has been established the administrative control was implemented slowly, and formulations of thoughts on appealing the decisions of the Provincial Presence were deprived of speed and efficiency. The provincial zemstvo sinned against evading operative decisions. At the same time, there was a dishonest delay in the circulation ofdocuments in all parts of public administ-ration and local self-government.