Réforme des abus, documents officiels

The Reports of the Commissioners appointed to examine, take and state the Public Accounts of the Kingdom, presenled to His Majesty and to both Ilouses of Parliament : with the appendixes complète, 1783, 1785, 1787.

Finance Reports, 1797-1798; and Proceedings thereapon, 1798-1803, with a gênerai index to the v)hole (36 rapports).

Naval Inquiry. Reports of Commissioners, 1802-1806 (14 rapports).

Commission for regulating and revising the civil affairs of the navy, 1805. Reports ofthe Commissioners, 1806-1809 (13 rapports).

Military Inqairy. Reports of Commissioners ofinquiry, 1806-1812 (19 rapports. — Index général, 1816).

Reports from the Select Committee appointed to draw up Articles of Impeachment against Henry, Lord Viscoani Melville, 1805-6 (3 rapports).

Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee of the Whole House appointed to investigate the Condncl of His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the Commander in Chief, with regard to Promotions, Exchanges, and Appointments to Commissions in the Army and Staff of the Army, and in raising Levies for the Army, 1809.

Reports from the Committee appointed to examine and consider what régulations and checks hâve been established in order to control the several Branches of the Public Expenditure in Great Britain and Ireland, and how far the same hâve been effectuai, and what furlher measures can be adopted for reducing any part ofthe said Expenditure, or diminishing the amount of Salaries and Emoluments, without détriment to the Public Service, 1807-1812 (13 rapports).

Reports from the Select Committee appointed to consider what Offices in the United Kingdom and in the Foreign Dominions of His Majesty corne within the parview of the second, third, and fourth Resolutions of The House, on the Third Report from the Committee on Public Expenditure of the United Kingdom, 1810-1812 (3 rapports).

Reports from Select Committee on Sinécure Offices, 1810-1812 (3 rapports).

Reports from the Select Committee appointed to inquire into and state the Income and Expenditure of the United Kingdom for the year ended the 5th January 1817, and also to consider and state the probable Income and Expenditure (so far as the same can be estimated) for the years ending the 5th of January 1818, and the 5th of January 1819 respectively ; and also to consider ivhat further measures may be adopted for the Relief of the Country from any part of the said Expenditure, without détriment to the Public Interest {Sinécure Offices), 1819.

A Return of the Number of Persons employed, and Pay, and Salaries granted to such Persons, in ail Public Offices or Departments, in the year 1797; and in the years 1805, 1810, 1815 and 1819; shovnng the increase in each of thèse years, as compared with 1797; Also, a Return for 1827, showing the Rédaction that has been made since 1819, 1828.

2. En dehors des ouvrages d'ensemble sur les institutions politiques (voir en particulier Gneist), il n'existe pas de travail sur le système administratif, si ce n'est le petit livre, très sommaire, de :

Eaton (Dorman Bridgman). Civil Service in Great Britain. A history of abuses and reforms, and their bearing upon American politics, 1880.

Voir encore l'ouvrage plus spécial de

Joyce (Herbert). The History ofthe Post-Office from its Establishment down to 1836,

3. Les juges, les avocats, la corporation judiciaire en général. 1° Ouvrages d'ensemble.

GoTTU (Charles). De V Administration de la Justice Criminelle en Angleterre et de Vesprit du gouvernement anglais, 1820; 2« éd., 1822 (trad. angl., 1822).

Pearce (R. R.). a History of the Inns of Court and Chancery; with notices of their aneient discipline, rule, orders, etc., 1848.

2° Biographies.

Campbell (John, Lord). The lives ofthe lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the earliest times to the reign of King George IV, l""" éd., 8 vol., 1845-8, 4e éd., 10 vol., 1856-7.

— . The lives of the Chief Justices of England, from the Norman Conquest till the death of Lord Tenterden, 3 vol., 1849-57; 3e éd., 4 vol., 1874.

TowNSHEND (William Charles). The lives of twelve eminent jadges of the last and the présent century, 2 vol., 1846.

(JIampbell (John, Lord). Life of John, lord Campbell, lord High Chancellor of Great Britain; consisting ofa sélection from his autobiography, diary, and letters, edited by his daughter, 1881.

Eldon (lord Chancellor — ). The public and private life of — , with sélections

from his correspondence, par Horace Twiss, 3 vol., 1844. Kenyon (Lloyd, first lord — )• The life of—, par G. T. Kenyon, 1873.

3° Réforme des abus.

Stephen (sir James Fitzjames). A History of the Criminal Law of England, 3 vol., 1883.

Bentham (Jeremy). Works, éd. Bowring, 11 vol., 1838-1843. Romilly (Sir Samuel). Memoirs of his life, written by himself; with a sélection from his Correspondence, edited by his sons, 3 vol., 1840.

B. L'administration locale.

a) Documents officiels.

Report from the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the state of the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales and Ireland ...., 1833.

Firsl and Second Reports of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales, 1835, 1837 (Analytical Index, 1839).

First Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Municipal Corporations in Ireland, 1835.

General Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of Municipal Corporations in Scotland, 1835.

h) Ouvrages densemble.

BuuN (Richard). The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer, upon a plan entirely new, and comprehending ail the laio to the présent lime, 2 vol., 1755. — 29" éd., 5 vol., 1845.

Merewether (H. A.). A Sketch of the History of Boroughs and the Corporate Rig ht of Election, 1822.

— and Stephens(A. J.). The History of the Boroughs and Municipal Corporations of the United Kingdom from the earliest to the présent time, with an examinaiion of records, charters and other documents, illustrative of their constitution of powers, 3 vol., 1835.

CocKBURN (A. E.). The Corporations of England and Wales; containing a succinct account of the constitution, privilèges, powers, revenues, and expenditure of each corporation; together with détails shewing the practical working of the Corporate System in each borough or city, and any defects or abuses luhich hâve been found to exist. The whole collected and abridged from the reports ofthe Commissioners for inquiring into Municipal Corporations, 2 vol., 1835.

Smith (J. Toulmin). The Parish, Its Obligations and Powers : ils Officers and Duties : with illustrations of the practical working of their institution in ail secular affairs, 1854.

— Local Self-Government and Centralization; the characteristics of each; and its practical tendencies, as affecting social, moral, and political welfare and progress, including comprehensive outlines of the English Constitution, 1851.

Proteste contre les tendances centralisatrices de la législation moderne, insiste sur le caractère démocratique de l'ancien self-government paroissial.

Gneist (Piudolf). Geschichte und heutige Gestalt der englischen Communalverfassung oder des Selfgovernment, 2« éd., 2 vol., 1863,

(et le second volume du grand auteur sur le droit constitutionnel et administratif cité plus haut).

Remis au point par le bon travail de ;

Redlich (Josef). Englische Lokalverwaltung . Darstellung der inneren Verwaltung Englands in ihrer geschichllichen Entwicklung und in ihrer gegenwartigen Gestalt, 1901 (trad. angl., avec additions, par F. W. Hirst, 1903).

Et surtout par le grand ouvrage, en cours de publication (3 volumes déjà parus) de :

Webb (Sidney and Béatrice). English Local Government from the Révolution to the Municipal Corporations Act, 1906 ....