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Their duty was to see that all provincial edicts and ordinances decreed by the Estates were published and enforced, to control the finances and to undertake the provision and oversight of all military requirements; and to them it belonged to summon the meetings of the Estates. The Deputed-Estates in the other provinces had similar but generally less extensive and authoritative functions.
The ordinary executive and administrative work of Provincial government was carried out in Holland by a body known as the Commissioned-Councillors Gecommitteerde-Raden; in the other provinces by Deputed-Estates Gedeputeerde-Staten. The Commissioned-Councillors were to the Estates of Holland what the Council of State was to the States-General.
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