English Translation

22 - 21 - of its district, with the exception of the services of the Wehrmacht, the police, the judiciary, the railways, the postal service and the financial sector, a right of instruction in the event of a risk in default, while at the same time requiring the competent authority concerned to immediately inform the facts and the nature of its instructions by the quickest means. However, the Oberlandrat has only to make use of this right of instruction in really urgent cases. As a rule, its activity in the termination of defects will be primarily a simple and advisory one. § 6. The Oberlandrats are involved in the legislative and judicial process of the German Minister of State on the basis of their particular knowledge of local conditions in an advisory form. § 7. The Oberlandsrats draw the following: "The German Minister for Bohemia and Moravia The Ober Landrat inspector in . . " The service card of the Oberlandrats is personally signed by the German Minister of State. § 8. The Oberland Councils can be personally provided by the Deutsche Staatsmini- ster with special or general special contracts. § 9. The Upper Land Councils do not have their own authority. They only have a personal office, the individual head of department - 22 -