STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 429, sig. 109-4/174

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4h - 2 - b.) In the event that the previous President has not designated or does not wish to determine the new Head of the Protectorate, the Government Decree must provide that the Government appoints the new Chief of the protectorate, whereby a three-way proposal must be submitted to the Reichsprotektor. 2.) The President remains in office - the Government resigns. The President determines who is running the government business until the constitution of a new government and submits the list of proposals for a new Government to be appointed by him with the request for confirmation to the Reichsprotector (Art. V para. 3 of the Füheerlesses über das Protectorat Böhmen und Mähren). a.) The previous government decides as a managing government a government decree of the kind provided for in paragraph 1. The procedure is accordingly. b. The president and the government are completely incapacitated and not inclined to enact the votes a.). Then the imperial protector according to the kind. V of the ruling of the Protectorate on the orders necessary in the common interest, since danger is in default. He determines who has to conduct the business until the constitution of a new government and appoints himself the new head of the protectorate Bohemia and Moravia, taking into account the nature. The new head of the Protectorate then presents the list of proposals for a new government of the protectorate to be appointed by him to the Reichsprotektor for confirmation (cf. point 2).