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Updated: May 11, 2025
On Sunday mornings the whole 'Gemeente' goes to church, from the Burgomaster to the poorest farm-labourer, and all are dressed in their best. The men of the village have put aside their working-clothes, and are attired in blue or black cloth suits with white shirt fronts and coloured ties.
A rather square-toed kind of a little volume, neatly bound in grey boards, and very nicely printed, having altogether an effect of housewifely cleanliness, is the "Verslag van den Toestand der Gemeente Haarlem over het jaar 1894. Door Burgemeester en Wethouders Uitgebracht aan den Gemeenteraad; imprint Gedrukt bij Gebr Nobels, te Haarlem." Jas.
Under these conditions it seems that any one who wishes to evade the law will have little difficulty in doing so. The canal-boat people, apparently, are exempt so long as they do not remain for twenty-eight days consecutively in the same 'gemeente, or commune.
These Wethouders, with the Burgomaster, form the 'Dagelyksch Bestuur. All ordinary matters concerning the 'Gemeente, such as giving information to the Minister of War about the men who have signed for the militia, or about any person living in their 'Gemeenten, are regulated by the 'Dagelyksch Bestuur, though matters of import are brought before the 'Raad. Next in importance to the Burgomaster come the 'Gemeenteontvanger, who receives all the taxes, and the 'Notary, who is the busiest man in the village, although the doctor and clergyman or priest have a large share in the work of contributing to the welfare of the villagers.
He also talks of his 'Gemeente, for all Holland is portioned off into 'Gemeenten, and a village is such in as good a sense as large towns like The Hague and Amsterdam, and better if anything, for the taxes there are not so high.
One very advanced sect of modern Dutch Protestants not yet, however, numbering a great many adherents does not go quite to this extreme, but in the 'Vrye Gemeente, or 'Free Community, they represent religion as a thing complete in itself, a thing purely pertaining to the individual, personal spiritual life.
Each 'Gemeente' is separately governed by a Burgomaster and 'Leden van den Raad', which is nothing more nor less than a County Council, presided over by a prominent man nominated by the sovereign, and not elected by the members, of which some are called 'Wethouders, and are, like the other members, elected by the residents of the district.
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