A MICROSCOPIC STATE.
Tho Republic of Moresnot, on the boundary between Germany and Belgium, has an area of barely one square■-y,':. ~- i mile a-.-d a quarter and a population of three thousand five hundred. A boun< cir.ry commission settling tho frontiers after tho fall of Napoloon in 1814 _ waa unable to agree upon tho ownership of this tiny piece of land and finally left the question for future settlement. Meanwhile it was to bo administered jointly by the two States. Tho joint administration soou resulted in nn administration by neither State, and the community became selfgoverning under tho protection of Prussia and Belgium. In 1841 the two guar* an I eein.,'.'; countries gave tho district its own independent administration. It has no courts, but litigants can choose between the Belgium and Prussian* | tnbimals in beginning litigation, whioh' is subject to tho laws neither of Germany nor of Belgium, but of tho an. cicnt... Code Napoleon. On reaching military age, the youth of Moresnot have the choice of .serving dither Belgium or Germany.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 721, 14 November 1914, Page 6
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172A MICROSCOPIC STATE. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 721, 14 November 1914, Page 6
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