THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1583, sig. 109-4/1337

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The view of the Land Office is also confirmed by a decision of the Supreme Court in Brno dated March 1942 - reference number RI 66/42. The compulsory administrator alone cannot make the sale, but he can make it with the consent of or on behalf of his supervisory authority. The supervisory authority is the Land Office. The indication that protectorate courts under German influence make decisions which are not in accordance with the law can probably be dismissed without further comment. (b) The Government Decree on compulsory administration also clearly states that compulsory administration may also be appointed for undertakings registered in the commercial or cooperative register, as far as agricultural enterprises are concerned, i.e.: The Land Office is in no doubt responsible for the appointment of the compulsory administrators for undertakings which directly exploit agricultural and forestry products. If, in special cases, another Ministry is responsible, a simple delegation of the authority to impose the compulsory administration dxrek declares the Landant responsible; solehe cases have already been carried out with the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour. (c) The doubt as to the right of the coercive administrator to remove the owner from his possession, to reduce the amount of apanages, is not valid. If the presence of the owner suffers from proper management, which in some cases has already occurred by incitement by the owner of the property, and thus a normal execution of the work is difficult, then -4-