25 .-- Alongside of the paid town officers and the municipal councilors, there are special committees composed of benevolent members and electors "either to administer or superintend some branch of communal business, or to study some particular question." "These committees, subject, moreover, in all respects to the burgomaster, are elected by the municipal council."-- There are twelve of these in Bonn and over a hundred in Berlin.

This institution serves admirably for rendering those who are well disposed useful, as well as for the development of local patriotism, a practical sense and public spirit.] [Footnote 4232: Aucoc, p.

283.] [Footnote 4233: Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, "L'administrateur locale en France et en Angleterre," pp.26, 28, 92.

(Decrees of March 25, 1852, and April 13, 1861.)] [Footnote 4234: J.Ferrand, ibid., p.

169, 170 (Paris, 1879): "In many cases, general tutelage and local tutelage are paralyzed....