STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2338, sig. 109-11/140

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1/ 32 A few notes on the abolition of the monastery of Emmaus and the dissolution of the Order of the Merciful Brothers . The existence and activity of the Greeks in Bohemia and Moravia still apply the standards of the former monarchy of Habsburg; for the former Czechoslovak law No./l9l8 sb.z.a. has left Article 2.in force of the existing laws and regulations and according to article l2. production of the Fuhrer and the Imperial boar of 16.III.l939 no.75/l939 sb .z. and n. shall remain in force law, now in the Czech Republic and in Moravian Republic. 0 religious groups speak the law of 7.V.l874 No.50 of the Imperial Act. § 3l.citated law reads: "As far as the internal legal standards of the monastery communities in the Catholic Church are concerned, they have a special effect on the causes of such communities at all. The article calls the order and religious congregation of the monasteries of the cloisters and leaves for them a special regulation for such institutions issued. The most important of these provisions is the yield of the min.culty and spra-floor from l3.VI.l858 ro.z. This decree differs from the introduction of a new religion and introduction of the new monastery house of the crehole in the state already existing. In the case of the introduction of a new crusade, the emperor's permission was necessary. The new cresary had to submit an identification of its organisation and its objectives, which she regularly demonstrated by the presentation of her statutes. Furthermore, she had to provide a certificate of sufficient financial pro-centres. The permission of the new religious, which was granted through the Ministry of Cult and Teaching, was further bound to the consent of the bishop, in whose dieces the new religion was to settle. However, in the case of the construction of a new monastery of the river in the state already existing, the then-earth governorship (the political government) was granted permission by the Land Office if the Ministry had previously stated that it could do so./Production of the min.culty and teaching of 28.11.1866 No.68./ This formal permission of the new church or new church house became the monasteries of the nature of the legal person. According to the Ministry's decree of Il.VIII.1857 No 109l and 28.VIII 1865 No 6657, the choice of abbots, abbess and life-long superiors to the ministry for the cause of approval is necessary. Before the choice, the property of the monastery had to be re-invened for the cooperation of the governorship /terrestrial council/. According to the court office decree of 19.III.1834 No.70l0 the monasteries must each year submit personal statements to the governorship /zen.