A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1862, sig. 109-5/90

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00 The further remarks are not concerned with the status of wrestling about the enforcement of the German language in the administration of the municipality of Neuhaus. It has become self-evident, is already strictly adhered to and has completely asserted that a/ with the German parties only German, with the techechiecnen German-techechiseh is corresponded, b/ all documents to public bodies and institutions from the local ante only in one-language German ghen and by these kürperscheften any one-lingual Czech attribution is assigned, c/ all bookers at the city office and the er- d u d da eq language are led, d/ all very serious instructions to municipal employees are only German published, e/ to the anikiindiguhg tables of the city only German or deutoch-Czech plakets can be narrowed. Those of you in those cases where it is only purely Czech meetings and events. Regulations that have been introduced by me from my own initiative and have already prevailed today. l./ All invoices about orders of the Geneinde and their enterprises are accepted by the craftsmen, merchants and others only in one language. This has already become completely naturalized. 2./ The German members of the community are allowed to speak only German in traffic with the technical employees. /This arrangement sounds a bit strange, but is always necessary for Germans who speak Czech fluently, since the German is far too yielding in linguistic matters./