STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2302, sig. 109-11/104

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16a In the past, the "Gnadenpension" was granted to us not as alms but as a means of improving our standard of living. In fact, it was possible at that time to carry out a very good bourgeois household with öK. looe.- monthly, which can not be claimed today with RM. 4o.-. Furthermore, the question remains open for an improvement of the widow's pension, which is only ly2 of the man's rent; in my case therefore eK. 684.- mtl. because the grace pension is extinguished with the death of the husband. With such a small amount, even in the case of the most modest claims a income is excluded. One should have left the grace puch to the widows in order to protect them from please. Since these are only a few, mostly hoc women, the burdens of the society here can hardly play a role. - An understanding on the part of the Prague iron-indus of Aie trotfenen association remains tch e 30192