Ukmergės dūmos veikla ir pilietiškumo raiškos savivaldoje lygmuo
Activities of Ukmergė Municipal Duma and the Level of Expression of Citizenship in It

Summary/Abstract: In the late 1870s the tsarist administration undertook a task of introducing the Municipal Statute of 1870 in the county centres of the Kaunas Governorate; in 1879 it took effect in Ukmergė. In contrast to the previous situation of municipal self-government, the statute expanded it and opened new possibilities. Municipalities acquired a clear-cut definition of their activities and greater independence; they already belonged to some of the few imperial institutions, which were not subordinate to the tsarist administration in terms of their activities. The goal of the article is to single out the features and consistency of expression of citizenship in self-government through the analysis of activities of the municipality of Ukmergė in the final quarter of the 19th c entury – t he beginning of the 20th century. It sets an objective to find out the possibilities of the municipal community and its participation in local self-government, the courses and priorities of activities of the municipality, and the interests of the tsarist administration. It is the first scientific article covering the activities of the municipality of Ukmergė of the late 19th century – early 20th century and one of the first articles in the Lithuanian historiography addressing the past of the municipal community in the aspect of expression of citizenship. The main source of the study is the Fund of the Committee for Municipal Affairs of the Kaunas Governorate No. 1567 kept in the Lithuanian State Historical Archives. The Committee was the principal institution supervising the municipalities in the governorate. It contains the material elaborating on the activities of the local selfgovernment of Ukmergė in a wide variety of aspects: minutes of the meetings of the duma, cases on municipal elections, correspondence for budget formation purposes, documents on taxation and municipal assets, activities of self-government institutions, environmental management, plenty of information of general type on the town and its residents. This highly informative source has not been used for providing the information on the history of Ukmergė to this day. A rather concise but important Ukmergė Municipal Board Fund kept at the Kaunas County Archives was used as well...

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