English Translation

66a 2 has drawn up the budget on the basis of proposals made by the Supreme Protectors.However, once the budget had been approved, the various branches of administration could not freely dispose of the appropriations entered in the budget. Each month they had to submit to the Ministry of Finance a list of all the chapters, titles and individual items with an overview of the operations necessary for the month. The Ministry of Finance has once again examined all the expenditures and only then the central authorities are allowed to dispose of the funds.In the case of extra-ordinary expenditures of more than 50,000 K, the involvement of the Ministry of finance was necessary in each individual case. I caused the removal of this condition by the decree annexed to the annex. In the future, a lot of avoidable administrative work will be spared.The focus of the audit of expenditures is on the preparation of the budget.The monthly postal request of the funds and the individual audit by the Ministry of Finance completely falls away. In the context of the approved budget, the individual ministries may, with the exception of very few restrictions listed separately, freely add.In the future, the monthly resource requirement will be made in a simple way on a form which is aligned with the provisions of the Reich ( § 48 of the Imperial Economy = provisions). In this way, too, the resource requirement is sufficient to provide the finance minister with an overview of the expected financial needs of the coming month.With this transfer of expenditure, the individual ministries are given increased responsibility.The position of the budget officer in the ministries gains a very special significance. I ask in particular the German officials in the 06538