The prefect supervises the execution of the laws; has wide authority in regard to policing, public hygiene and relief of pauper children; has the nomination of various subordinate officials; and is in correspondence with the subordinate functionaries in his department, to whom he transmits the orders and instructions of the government.
Antonio Galvao, who, after governing the Moluccas with rare success and integrity, had been offered the native throne of Ternate, went home in 1540, and died a pauper in a hospital, his famous treatise only appearing posthumously.
In 1goo there was neither pauper nor workhouse in the country.
The average cost of maintaining an ordinary pauper was 5s.
France the pauper, as such, has no legal Tongking claim to help from the community, which Laos.
