The lord hunted down by the game

Chapter 208 Administrative Organization
In the process of reorganizing the regular army of the American Empire, the local security forces have also undergone orderly rectification.

The rectification of local security forces is mainly due to the central cabinet government led by Bismarck to gather local rights.

The originally chaotic militia was incorporated or disbanded.

On the basis of the police department, the cabinet government reorganized the militia into urban defense forces and rural security forces according to regional needs.

The expenses of these two teams are fully supported by local taxes, but the expenses are distributed by the tax officials directly under the empire.

Originally, Bismarck wanted to ban the militia, after all, their functions overlapped with the police department.

But later, after dispatching central officials to conduct on-the-spot investigations, it was found that although the banditry in the American Empire was gone, there were still many ignorant, brutal and disobedient Indians in the deep mountains and old forests.

Obviously, it is difficult to fight against them by the police alone, so it is necessary to keep a second-line regular army to ensure the safety of traffic between cities and the safety of people's lives and property in the countryside.

As a result, the city defense team and security team with clear responsibilities were newly released.

As the name suggests, the city defense force is an armed force serving towns and cities, including but not limited to protecting cities and towns, maintaining public order and security, accepting valuable employment, guarding caravans, and so on.

Of course, if necessary, they will also be sent out by the city government to clean up the bandits' lairs.

The functions of the security team are much less. They only need to maintain the security of remote settlements such as country manors. The members of the security team are all from the countryside. This way, their fighting enthusiasm will be higher.

In fact, before this, there were self-organized militias in the countryside of the American Empire for self-defense. What the American Empire government did was to change the name of these militias to the security forces and bring them under the control of the government.

After the security team was established in the countryside, the police department was actually integrated with the security team. The police in the countryside were the magistrates, and the magistrates often served as the captain of the security team.

After all, compared with cities and towns, the affairs of armed forces in the countryside are often less complicated.

On this basis, the American Empire also established the hierarchical expenditure of administrative agencies.

Villages and manors are turned into village-level administrative units, and no matter how large or small the population is, as long as settlements are formed, they are classified as villages.

In the village, there will be a security team led by a sheriff and a village chief.

The peace officer is appointed by the superior town of the village, and the security team is dispatched from the village.

The village head is generally a person selected after consultation between the people in the village and the higher-level government.

In order to facilitate the rule, the general village head will promote a person with high morals and prestige in the village.

The management of villages by cities and towns mainly focuses on taxation. As long as the taxes are paid in full, town governments in cities and towns generally do not intervene in management issues.

There are too many villages in the American Empire, and the empire does not have a big killer like a political commissar, so it is difficult to penetrate the tentacles of rule into the villages.

The basic unit that the central government of the American Empire can really rule effectively is actually the town level.

This is also a second-level administrative unit higher than villages, and towns often have the responsibility of maintaining the security of villages within their jurisdiction and collecting taxes.

The town will set up a town government. The town government has the main officials such as the mayor, the sheriff, the tax officer, and the judicial officer. Theoretically, the mayor has the highest status, but he cannot intervene in other departments for no reason.

Because the sheriff’s immediate supervisor is the Central Cabinet Police Department, the tax collector’s immediate supervisor is the Central Cabinet’s Ministry of Finance, and the judicial officer’s immediate supervisor is the Central Cabinet’s Ministry of Justice...

Obviously, this was established by Bismarck to decentralize power with the local government. Although doing so will reduce the administrative efficiency of the town government, it can guarantee the authority of the central government to the greatest extent!
Otherwise, if the mayor can decide everything with one word, he will easily become the local emperor.

Towns generally only set up police stations, and only towns facing external threats will add town guards.

And the town guard is often under the jurisdiction of the police station...

The difference between the town guard and the police is that the members of the town guard are just ordinary militiamen, half-soldier and half-civilian, while the police are permanent professional armed forces, a specialized violent institution!

Of course, if a town faces external bandits and Indian threats for a long time, the town guard will also become a permanent armed force, but doing so will greatly increase the financial pressure on the town government.

Above the towns is the third level of administration—the city.

The municipal government of a city is similar to the town government. It will also set up a mayor, the chief of the municipal police station, a financial officer, and a district court. Celebrities, also known as rich people.

The municipal committee only has the right to make suggestions and has no other rights. It can be regarded as a permanent supervisory department and a communication channel between the municipal government and private elites.

The municipal councils of the American Empire are not comparable to those of the British colonial period. Because of this, the entry threshold for the municipal councils is very low, as long as they meet a certain tax quota, they can apply for entry.

Similarly, the municipal council is also the private land of representatives of various chambers of commerce in the city. Although they cannot participate in politics in the American Empire, they can at least discuss politics and raise some administrative malpractices.

This is still beneficial to imperial rule.

And the municipal committee can continue to elect representatives through internal elections, go to the state capital, provincial capital or regional capital, and participate in the state assembly, provincial assembly, and district assembly that also only have the right to make suggestions.

Because the fourth-level administrative unit of the American Empire has three names, the names are different.

There is still a big difference between the capital council and the municipal council, and the proposals of the capital council are often handed over to the imperial cabinet!

This makes a lot of sense!
If some high-ranking officials of the local government entrap these social elites and are directly conveyed to the imperial cabinet ministers by the representatives of the parliament, you must be careful to reveal the truth...

In the American Empire, the power of the bureaucracy far exceeds that of private capital, and local high-ranking officials have a lot of ways to kill a social elite. This is the significance of setting up the capital city council.

Yuri will not tolerate local high-ranking officials stifling the development of the local economy for their own selfish desires.

After all, those social elites who can make money are the pillars of the empire's economic development, so we can't rely on the empire's official institutions for all business.

The fourth-level administrative units above the city are states, provinces, and regions.

The state refers to the mainland controlled by the American Empire when it was founded, and the province refers to the Florida Province, which refers to the land acquired by the American Empire after its founding.

A large area specifically refers to a territory with a large area and a sparsely populated area. Now the territory of the American Empire is a large area with seven states, one province, and one province.

The area of ​​New England alone exceeds the combined area of ​​seven states!

(End of this chapter)