STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 26, sig. 109-1/29

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- 20 - 21 Head of the Minister-mtes ?). § 2. The primary task of the Oberlandrats is to monitor the entire life in their district, their competence in this respect is unlimited. § 3. In order to fulfil this task, the Oberlandsräten has an unlimited right of information vis-à-vis all the rich and protectorate departments of their district. In accordance with this right of information of the Upper Land Councils, all the departments of a Higher Land Council have an obligation to inform the Upperland Council on an ongoing basis, i.e. the obligation to keep the Upper land Councils informed and to deal with all the main events within the competence of the departments concerned and in. To inform the population at all At the request of the Oberlandrat, any desired information must be given. This obligation to provide information is expressly imposed on all departments in the instructions concerning them. § 4. In the case of the Oberlandrat from this information or on the basis of its own observations finds undesirable conditions or individual cases, it must either - as far as this is possible locally - arrange for the correction or - to the extent that it exceeds its possibilities - report to the German Minister of State. § 5. For the purpose of self-employed work according to § 4 the Oberlandrat is opposite all the departments of its - 21 -