STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1296, sig. 109-4/1050

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16 4.sheet on the work report of the Primator Deputy for the period from 1/10 to 31/12.1943. e M G OF PRIMATORSTELL REPRESENTATIVES evitle dorrb nelloe tebetlatin DER HAUPTSTADT PRAG turns to the branches of the city administration, for which it is already established that a number of lawyers working as heads of these branches can be deducted without damage to the business. They should be used in a meaningful way for important tasks of the central administration. With the not yet completely closed room check, the result has already been shown that some rented objects, which can be converted back into living space, have to be abandoned. We believe that we have fulfilled the last demands of the office room surveillance to the full. With special thanks the Reg.VO. of 9/l2.1943 on administrative simplification, because through it a whole series of tasks, which have so far been supervised by the supervisors, have been transferred to the basic authority and thus the course of business has been decisively facilitated. Our satisfaction is all the greater than in this Reg.vo. also some suggestions from the city of Prague have been taken into account. Bed In order to be able to progress accordingly in this way, during the period under review, I have prepared a memorandum on the legal status of the capital city of Prague, which summarises all the reasons why we must strive for the direct insinuation of the Capital City of Prague under the Ministry of the Interior. Such a change in the current legal status would not only take into account certain priority considerations, but would above all lead to a decisive acceleration, simplification and saving of power in the course of business. On the other hand, I felt it was necessary to check the usefulness of the committees themselves, which had 16 votes and had an honorary role, and it proved that these committees often did not carry out any significant activity and were made up of members who were still from the time before the protectorate was set up. It is precisely because the voluntary element in every real self-government has to come to the fore, that I have proposed a substantial reduction in the number of commissions and their membership to the State Ministry with lneysrl