English Translation

6&a 122 57 Church and cemetery office. The capital city of Prague is the owner of various churches and a large number of parish cemeteries, the patron saint of churches, church plots and cemetery. These include numerous church foundations. Church and communal cemeterys are in some cases so closely connected that the groves are no longer recognizable. There are also close administrative links between the church and cemetery administration. The Legal Affairs of the Churches -, Patro- nats- und Friedhofsverwaltung concerned the Church Department XIV The administrative activities for the Patronage and the Communal Cemeterys are carried out by the Office of Church and Priedhofsangelschaften and by branches of the City Administration, the construction tasks of the Bauemt 7a. The administration of the urban churches is in the hands of the business office, the building maintenance of the latter in the building office 7. It would be advisable to separate the church from the bourgeois opportunities, and to transfer it to a special department. This would, however, be legally difficult and administratively uneconomic in the close relations between the two areas of dispensation. Rather, it is necessary to summarize the general scope of the tasks in a "church and cemetery office ". The structural tasks could be transferred to the municipal building office. However, since only urban, patronage and Kirehliche buildings of a special kind are to be kept in a considerable number, the maintenance of a particular building department is expedient, which however is not to be added as a separate department into the church and cemetery office. The Confer- ction Unit has to contribute to the position of organs of small religious and religious societies, which are particularly recognized by the state, and to collect these taxes.