Administrative auditor
Original title: Auditor Administrativo
Outlines the office of administrative auditor, a judge of first-instance administrative litigation in the Funchal district, and how its powers grew after 1901.
The posts of administrative auditor were created by the codes of 1895 and 1896, which restored the special courts of first instance for administrative litigation.
The District Commission (Comissão Distrital), which was one of these courts, ceased to exist in that capacity in the district of Funchal (Distrito do Funchal) under the Decree of 8 August 1901, which applied to the district the special organisation allowed to the Azorean districts. The judges of law and the auditor remained, however. This magistrate now holds not only the powers conferred on him by the code of 1895 and by that of 1896, but also the litigious and advisory powers which under both codes belonged to the said Commission, now abolished.
The laws of 7 August 1913 and 23 June 1916 did not alter the jurisdiction and powers of the administrative courts to which we refer.
The secretary-general acts as public prosecutor before the administrative auditor.
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Time
Years mentioned · 05-
An administrative code created the posts of administrative auditor.
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A further administrative code confirmed the office of administrative auditors.
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Following the law of 22 May 1901, a decree of 8 August 1901 extended the Azorean autonomous regime to the district of Funchal, creating a directly elected Junta Geral that took over the district public works; road-building followed.
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The administrative law of 7 August 1913 set municipal council sizes, fixed the Junta Geral's composition with a three-member executive committee, gave executive commissions oversight of brotherhoods' accounts and left administrative tribunal powers unchanged.
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A law reduced municipal councils to 24, 16 and 12 councillors, leaving administrative tribunal powers unchanged.
Place
Places mentioned · 01
- Funchal
The district where the Comissão Distrital was abolished as a tribunal in 1901.
The capital of the archipelago and seat of the principal captaincy, where settlement began; it was made a vila c.1451–52. Its bay, the widest in the archipelago, lies between Ponta do Garajau and Ponta da Cruz and offers sheltered anchorage, though its harbour had never been studied oceanographically. The Elucidário discusses it as a health resort with climate data and records the January 1906 disturbances, the Danish prince's visit in May 1846 and recent volcanic cones in the area.