roprietors and the heaviest taxpayers, twenty to a
second class composed of urban electors, and thirty-four to a third
class composed of rural electors. The franchise is bestowed upon all
subjects of the crown, born in the provinces or possessing one year's
residential qualification, who are of the male sex and have completed
their twenty-fourth year. In the first of the three classes women
possess the franchise, although they may exercise it only by male
deputy. Candidates for election must have completed their thirtieth
year and must be of the male sex and in full enjoyment of civil
rights. Civil and railway servants, as well as public school teachers,
are not eligible. In the first and second classes votes are recorded
in writing, but in the third, or rural, class, voting, by reason of
the large proportion of illiterates, is oral. In the second and third
(urban and rural) classes the system of single-member constituencies
has been adopted. The provinces are divided into as many Servian,
Mohammedan, and Catholic constituencies, with separate registers, as
there are seats allotted to the respective creeds. For the Jews all
the towns of the two provinces form a single constituency.[715]

[Footnote 715: The texts of the organic acts of
1910 are printed in K. Lamp, Die Rechtsnatur der
Verfassung Bosniens und der Herzegowina vom 17
Februar 1910, in Jahrbuch des Oeffentlichen Rechts
(Tuebingen, 1911), V.; L. Geller,
Bosnisch-herzegowinische Verfassungs und politische
Grundgesetze (Vienna, 1910); and in Zeitschrift fuer
Voelkerrecht und Bundesstaatsrecht, IV., No. 5. See
also F. Komloessy, Das Rechtsverhaeltniss Bosniens
und des Herzegowina zu Ungarn (Pressburg, 1911).]

PART VII.--THE LOW COUNTRIES (p. 517)

CHAPTER XXVIII

THE GOVERNMENT OF HOLLAND

I. A CENTURY OF POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT

Geographical juxtaposition, combined with historical circumstance, has
determined that between the two modern kingdoms of Holland and
Belgium, widely as they differ in many fundamental characteristics,
relations should be continuous and close. Both nations have sprung
from groups of provinces comprised within the original Low Countries,
or Netherlands. Following the memorable contest of the Dutch