STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2768, sig. 109-16/3

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59a 210 16 for gypsy hybrids in the same colour with a light blue transverse stripe (p. 2547 B), used for non-zigewers, but gypsies moving around in grey colour (p.2547 C). Each certificate receives a number. The Reichszentrale for the fight against gypsum runs a controlist via the certificates issued and sent for delivery. The certificate shall be sent to the competent criminal police department, which may be responsible for the mediation of the criminal police office, the local police authority or the gendarmerie department, in whose territory the person concerned is located, for the purpose of handing over the authority and gendarmes. Before giving the certificate, it shall bear the stamp of the right index finger of the holder. The gypsy shall issue a receipt for the handover, which shall also be printed on the right pointer. The receipt shall be worded as follows: Today I have been handed over by the local police office (gendarmeriestelle) into the certificate of the Reichskriminal- policing office No. (Signature) With the delivery of the certificate all previous Gypsy identification documents become invalid. They must be increased to the persons concerned and sent together with the receipt to the criminal police office. The receipt is to be directed to the Reichskriminalpolizeiamt - Reichszentrale zur Befämpfung des Zigeunerunwesen. Objections against the racial classification are to be sent to the Imperial Criminalpolizeisamt with all documents about the ancestry relations. C. Überwachung. I. Wanderung und Lagern in Horden. Die in Abschn. B 2-3 of the decree (p. 210 4 - 5) is intended to prevent unplanned hiking by the local police authority for the allocation of gypsies, gypsy minions and gypsum roaming.