English Translation

CV 4, which in some hereditary countries leads the title of President of the State, in Bohemia the title Governor. He is concerned not only with the affairs of the Ministry of the Interior, but also with the activities of the Department of Culture and Education, the Ministry for Agriculture and Defence and in some respects with the Department and Railway Ministry. In order to take care of the matters of the Health Administration, he is attached to a State Sanitary Council, for technical matters a building department, for forest police and forestry management the State Forest Inspections. The state administration offers certain analogies to - the organization of the Prussian administration in the provincial authorities and governments of the time. The President of the Land had a position analogous to that of the Presidant of the Prussian Provinces by - he is responsible at the head of the administrative area for the management of the business of the general state administration, insofar as the same non-resident authorities have been transferred and acts independently and under full responsibility within his business circle, Vice-Presidents and Court Councillors are appointed to represent the governor. In order to prepare the affairs of the political administration, under the leadership of the governor, there is a monocratic authority, the governorship, divided into different departments. In addition to his capacity as the responsible head of this district, however, the governor still has a personal sphere of influence within which he acts strictly as an individual official and has the business done only by his auxiliary officers according to his instructions. In this personal sphere of influence belongs in particular the first head of the security police in the country and a number of orders and decisions in the Landtag and Reichstag- besiegenbebeiten, His function as head of authority and the seinanan porsönliche sphere of activity is summarized under the name "presidial matters" in contrast to the- shops, which by the individual departments of the Land - 6 -