Abstract

The Week

The article presents various political and economical developments all round the world. A case has recently gone from the Massachusetts courts to the Supreme Court of the U.S. that raises a curious question. The county and town of Nantucket cover the same territory, so that it is impossible to be an inhabitant of one without being at the same time an inhabitant of the other. In an another news, the growing dissatisfaction in Germany with the sugar-bounty laws has at last led to their practical repeal. A law of May 31, regulating the inspection of beet-grown sugar and its domestic taxation, provides for the gradual lessening and final discontinuance of the drawback and bounty heretofore paid to exporters of refined sugar. The bounty is to cease altogether at the end of five years. The bounty laws have undoubtedly extended the area of beet culture.