THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1785, sig. 109-5/13

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V1 * -3 of its elimination then became logically ven itself a şcharfen centrálisation and the training of a professional civil servant oriented to Vienna and dependent on Vienna. The political authorities in Bohemia should also, by name, cease as a tandem body, but replace it with a bureaucratic structure dependent on Vienna.The individual countries were also administratively integrated territories and the regional authority in Bohemia, from which the present state authority later developed as a middle-level administrative unit. At that time was the noblest and central administrative authority, which was subordinated to the emperor in*- of his capacity as king of Bohemia and thus as the chief governor of the country, and was at the disposal of the emperor, This supreme authority was originally purest in character, The Estates and their commissioners al- In this way, the person of the common monarch could form the uniting centre for the training of common central authorities of the whole of the united country complex. He alone could become the Kristalisation point of a general state formed from these parts. Therefore, joint institutions could develop at first only on those Gobites, on which the personal regiment of the maimed ruler was decisive. Thus already under Ferdinand I the so-called "secret council" arose, which dealt in particular with foreign affairs and in 1527 the "General Court Chamber" for the Pinanzwesen. In 1556 then came for the unification of the Kriogsführung of the "Hofkricgsrat", which kept itself with certain changes until 1848. The Habsburgs first tried to create a counterweight in the form of their own royal law firm in Prague vis-à-vis the regional central office in Bohemia, which later became an imperial representative office (statutory office) through the personal union between the king and emperor, The Royal law firm on the Priger -4 -