REFORM IN MONACO.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 953, 21 October 1910, Page 5

REFORM IN MONACO.

;.; ;';A: CONSTITUTION GBANTED. ; ;■ -; By ifeleeraph-Presd .; ; ?' ; ;7 ; ; ■■.':'. .•"•".'. ■'. Monaco,' October W. ■ Albert .of ..Monaco has! granted .his.'people;a-..Constitution.;..' . ; ;;, ■■''■' The Prince,; of 'Monaco'-' is. at ! present an absolute 'ruler over his principality of eight squai'e :niiles.... The vAdminieto-. tion; ■ is' entrusted , to a Governpr-GeneraL with, a .Secretary-Generalj tary Of/State.'.'Therd- is. a consultative State Council, of .five members, appointed by theV Prince^ , ; Munialpal j ':'adlnini6tra- ; tion is in the.: hands•' of ..a .'Maybr.-.-'.andi Wo assistants,? with a' commi6sion;,of.five; members,' air appointed by the Prince/ \ : ' The -principality; has a populatitin of 19,000, and the chief towns arei Monaco,2410; La Coadamine, 6218 j, Monte Carlo, 3794.-. ' .-.',- ■"•;■ ;': .!v; : \;- :: '' : -"-,

The industries, and trade are insignificant, and the revenue is mainly derived from the gaming., tobies. 'The'annual grant for' the concession is ,£70,000, in 1917 it will: be .£BO,OOO, in 1927 .£90,Q00, and in 1937 iEIOO.OOO. The'gaming tables were first established on a large scale by M. Blanc; when he was driven, ,'ffoin' , - Hamburg in 1801. >M. Blanc obtained a concession, from Prince Charles '111 -;df Monaco for fifty:; years, .and thisVponcession, passed into the hands of a\ joint stock company, which in 1898 obtained an extension to 1947. by paying the Prince in 1899 a lump suin of J400.000, arid uudMtaking to pay "£600,000 in 1913, together .with the annual tribute.as stated above;. -.-.' ... ; . ■ ;