Gemeentefonds was municipal fund managing local affairs plaatselijk verkeer, health, street lighting in hoofdplaatsen of Atjeh.
Operation per Broersma
Useful institutions easy workings. Head local bestuur here controller is chairman commission 4 members managing gemeentefonds. Cares local traffic, health, street lighting. Incomes payments street lighting, rent pasar sheds. Maintains slaughterhouse, tennis court, cinema. Some maintain bathing facility sea. Some people prefer living under Atjeh gemeentefonds than under gemeenteraad Java.
Examples: Idi has gemeentefonds useful institutions; Lho Seumawe gemeentefonds manages water pipeline sandplate suitable water wells little salty, sea bath enclosure danger animals Europeans monthly one gulden population also uses regulation white brown not hinder, maintains pasar slaughterhouse cinema with string ensemble.
Sigli also gemeentefonds incomes cinema. Drinking water provision deficient water locally bad receives daily with tram quantity drinking water Koeta Radja 4 hour ride. Water delivered 6 cent petroleum tin delivery home 10 cent Source water pipeline possible cost ton. Gemeentefonds now 40k available.
Koeta Radja gemeentefonds two slaughterhouses cinema pasar maintains street lighting manages bathing place Oelèë Lheuë.
See Also
Source
Atjeh als land voor handel en bedrijf, by Dr. R. Broersma, Gebrs. Cohen, Utrecht, 1925, pp. 41, 54, 84, 96.