English Translation

70 -* the Ke.ishauptmarn from an insurgent honorary office to a paid state office, occupied by eerufsofficials, He became state administrative organ for monitoring the political administration in its lowest limbs, the city magistrates and the landlordial patrimonia offices as exclusive organs of self-government. The impoverished lower nobility, which was also economically dependent on the crown, was drawn to these centrists as state rulers. Thus, a counterweight against the nobility in the country was to be created still according to its own preference with its subjects. Thus it was also a task of the district chiefs to avoid the administrative activity of the Stindian lords, to report about it and to deal with complaints of the subjects against the landlordial authorities investigation and decision; moreover, to do something about the implementation of the measures directed against the supremacy of the Obrigkéites to free the subjects from Fron and serfdom. Constitutional changes in the years 1848, 1349 and later after 1860 finally broke those forms of administration which lasted substantially until the end of the monarchy, but they do not alter the foundations laid on Moria Theresia, but aim only to meet the increased demands of the age of technology and industry, taking into account greater specialisation. The Vereinigte böhnisch-österreichische Hofkanzlei was dissolved and, in its place, a Ministry of the Interior was set up. From its up-to-date business area, a number of regulations were eliminated and the Ministry of Education, the Ministry for Londo culture and mining and the Department of Commerce were established. Diase ministries extended their jurisdiction to the whole state.