English Translation

59a - 8 -. Occasionally, Klapka and I spoke to the Prime Minister about a whole series of financial wishes. They all arise from the fact that the municipal administration has been entrusted with a plethora of tasks for which it has no right cover. Thus, the question is still open whether we get a corresponding share from the interest rate tax. Until the fall of l938, the city drew about 60 million kroner annually from this title. It is clear that the cessation of this state contribution to the city is a serious injury. The contribution of the Ministry of Education for the maintenance of the school system to the city has still not been conclusive.In addition, there are the very significant costs incurred by the administration by the civil air protection and the price and commission department.In the tax system of the city there are no posts that could be used to cover this extra expenditure. Finally, the steadily increasing aid to employees is still to be added - which already exceeds the amount provided for in this year's budget. Overall, these titles give a minimum discharge for the city of more than tens of millions of kronor. Our request to the Prime Minister went on to raise these issues in the Council of Ministers and to discuss them with the individual ministers of the department, and we intend to present these matters to President Hácha in the near future, and this month the second stage of building a modern fire detector was also awarded. It has been possible to assign this order in the amount of 1,600,000.-- crowns to the proven company Siemens & Halske Because of the rich foundations existing in the city, it has been agreed on the German side not to require their national division at this time, since we have the hope, after all, to get a good part of these foundations into our hands. At present, according to the example of the country of Bohemia, the population key would be used, whereby we would perform exceptionally poorly. Negotiations have been ongoing for longer because of the security of the electric electricity supply, which seemed questioned by the annexation of Seestadtl to the Sudetengau. Since the Reich itself has the greatest interest in the electricity supply of the whole of Bohemia, it has become part of the Bohemian Central Electri- 65158