STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 481, sig. 109-4227

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In my opinion, this was not fair. If a farmer or trader became a deputy or minister, he had to seek and pay himself a substitute for wine estate or his trade, and this replacement power was only replaced by $chwer. The public sehuvachu employee, on the other hand, was given leave by his office for the duration of the exercise of his duties, the state, the country, etc. paid him the replacement power, and he continued to be a public employee. Thus, the public employee, who became a Member of Parliament and then a Minister, received three salaries at the same time, namely as Minister, as a delegate and as an employee. Dr. Benesch, as Minister of Foreign Affairs and as a personal decree, had a disposi- tion discount of approximately 1 0 - 20x million. This means that he had about 300,000.0000 Kč available in this way in the 2O years (for even in the time when he was President of the Republic he decided to continue to use this fund in my opinion). He commits to assigning something to someone about the use of this amount, not even to make any records about it. The use of the fund was always only a matter of confidence in the Minister. Whether Dr. Benesch himself decided on the funds of the Diposition Fund, whether he himself referred them (when or who), I do not know. The former officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in particular Dr. Krofåa, could certainly provide more detailed information about this. I can only remember that some Benesh followers and friends told me that at the end of the year, 8bin Dr. Benesch (for his personal Erfoiders - perrinofnisse) from the President of the Supreme Audit and Kortrollamt yrboany Dr. Körner had a kind of annual balance sheet of this fund confirmed. I don't know whether this information was correct either. When Dr. Horák became president of the Supreme Audit and Audit Office, I asked him after that. He told me that he had heard something like that from his officials, but certainly he didn't know it. Dr. Horálufewahtg the whole time he was in charge of the appointed office, never asked to confirm the balance sheet of deg-pigpositions-fonds. Rrxxße As far as I am aware, Dr. From the money of the disposition fund, neh defends at his own discretion and preferences to individual Czecho-Sovak envoys