English Translation

44 41 To ensure an overview of the state of the proceedings, each part of the procedure had to be recorded in a list and in a register. The Hand-Kartothek, which was managed by the purchase office, proved to be very useful and indispensable, in which each tax act taken over by the tax department is recorded immediately at the takeover. Since the eviction date of 1 April 1941 for the Ia Zone had to be strictly adhered to, it was natural for the Office, as a result of the advanced time, to lay the foundations for the purchase of the properties with the greatest speed. The activity of the purchase office was thus made more difficult by the late delivery of the taxes of the tax department as well as by the unusual snow conditions in the last winter. Due to these inhibiting effects, the time between preparation of the files and purchase was squeezed so that it sometimes seemed impossible to be able to do justice to the submitted departments. The fact that this finally succeeded is to a large extent to thank the joy of all employees employed in Wischau. During the reporting period, the purchase office for the extension zone I a was taken over in files: total number of tax files • . · . . 1.2l5 of which merges . . . 110 Total number of purchase files . . 1.l05 Essentially, these l,lo5 purchase files were able to reach the l.l. In the first half of April, the purchase commissions negotiated and concluded and forwarded by the Office to Prague for payment.