THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN CHEIN AND MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1657, sig. 109-4/1412

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English Translation

- 42 - Help of the assortment all these textbooks were to be collected and handed over to the publishing house for stamping. The publishing house would have sent again in the ratio 4 : 1 new textbooks to the Anstaltèn. Thus all the poor libraries would have been brought with one stroke to the state of today's school book conditions. Unfortunately, this proposal can't be realized today, as long as there is no absolute firmness in the curricula. However, this plan has not been repealed, but only postponed to a more favorable time. On the other hand, the ySvaz" has exploited a special textbook propaganda. In the school book period, no ranger is allowed to advertise on his own. The whole advertisement during this time is based on joint work. Here the Prague schoolbook sellers, who had already agreed to not print schoolbook registers, went ahead. Flight tickets may only be distributed in the shop or Fortsetzungen be added or sent through the mail. A distribution on the street is not permitted. In order to protect these provisions, all schoolbook sellers undertook to pay a convention penalty of Ke looo.- 47) in the event of any breach of these provisions.