STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1865, sig. 109-5/93

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46 - 2 - to wait until the lecture on the financial problems of the municipalities and the planned debate in November, announced by the senior councillor Urbanus for the next meeting of the government council, will be held. On the other hand, the preparation of the budget estimates also requires clarification of all the points I mentioned in my memorandum of September 2nd. I personally presented this memorandum with the primator to the Deputy Chairman of the Krejčí Government and Finance Minister Kalfus. The Minister of Finance seemed to have a certain tendency to respond on a number of points, including in the matter of house tax, and in the case of the civil air protection system, he referred to the draft government regulation available to the Reichsprotektor for approval. In the meantime, however, since nothing concrete has been done by his side in response to those demands, I think it is appropriate to stress the need to influence the Minister of Finance through the office of Mr Reichsprotektor in order to speed up the completion of our wish list. For this reason, the memorandum was also submitted to the Ministerial Councillor Dr.Gase with the request for review. Dr.Lang, the city finance officer, personally explained the individual points to him. In this context, I would like to point out once again that the completion of these very specific points must not be postponed until the general financial problems are reviewed, because all these are obligations of the State, which it has assumed in recent years.