· •was promulgated, and with a change in the provision fixing a maximum amount. The new Fascist regime, however, has not only not put a stop to the bad practice ; it has extended it, first admitting to the benefits of the subsidy steam vessels completed in 1924 (Royal decree No. 879, March 22, 1923), then increasing the subsidy ftind by a further 55 millions (Royal decree No. 1344, June 14).. Thus the 24 vessels mentioned in the Bill presented in the Chamber on December 13, 1921, have been nearly doubled. Let not the taxpayer imagine that in this way the State has become owner of a larger number of vessels. No ! The vessels are all in private ownership ; they were also already in large part completed ; the State has only the satisfaction·of having reimbursed to private individuals virtually the whole of the present value of the vessels ! (g) Building Subsidies. The Fascist press carried on one of its most vehement campaigns against the State subsidies for the construction of dwellings for ,vorkpeople and employees. But though on the arrival of the Fascist Government in power this policy was brought generally to an end, a fe,v interesting and singular exceptions were made. There were granted- (1) Under decree No. 105 of January 11, 1923, for co-operative housing for journalists, a subsidy of 270, ooo lire per annum ; (2) Under decree No. 1044 of April 22, 1923, for dwellings for employees of the Foreign Ministry, 200,000 lire per annum. Two further decrees, No. 1932 of July 12, and No. 2118 of September 10, 1923, authorised the railway administration to grant loans of 40 million lire for housing construction for the railway co-operatives. Biblioteca Gino Bianco
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