English Translation

VV -9 ~ these authorities, instead of the collegial system which has so far been frequently introduced, are built monokratically, i.e. the head of the authority is the sole responsible one, under whose name the business is conducted. The governors appointed by the Emperor were placed at the top of the list. The governor v•n Bohemia was at the same time the head of the state school authority and the finance directorate. As subordinate departments, the district presidents headed the administration of the districts. The district administrators thus had a double function, they were once still middle level of the administration with regard to their rights to the city magistrates and patrimonial offices. In this capacity they were a remnant from that time, where in the lay of the former state power was the supreme Iandes - place also the highest central authority, and the central authority which in Vienna still did not exist for all countries, secondly they were the lowest stage of the state-level administration, which concluded at the district offices, We can thus determine a twofold three-instance structure: for state-governing affairs from the county offices to the central offices of Vienna via don governors; in all other, especially in self-government matters from the lower self-administration authorities to the district authorities ... to the Iandtage or also directly to the Vienna central offices. This two-fold three-step structure and three-stage train has essentially been preserved even after the dissolution of the district administration and up to the hourly day, where the districts take over the inheritance of the districts. The danger that a four-stage administration could develop out of the detachable three-parts resulted from the abolition of good subservience in 1848, with which the patriots and city leaders disappeared as formerly local authorities. In its place, the district chief teams were established as the lowest state administrative authorities, which led to a certain degree of weakening of the position of the super-