STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2338, sig. 109-11/140 Page 40 · 40 of 71
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2338, sig. 109-11/140
English Translation
33 2/ According to the decree of the Minister of 2l.XII.1858 No.164l, local and provincial leaders must announce the governorship /national office/ which may object to the appointment for political reasons. According to Decree of the Ministerial of Il.X.l859 No.135l, all religious workers are required to have citizenship in the monasteries. § 17, and according to the decree of the Ministry of Finance of l7.VI.l863 No.29 of the Ministerial Journal and according of the decrees of the ministry of cult of l7.X.1903 No.899, taxes for the confirmation of pre-set elections are not paid, but they are taken out of all monasteries annual flat rate l/4 % of net annual income recorded at the option of the Superior. The amount shall be recognised by the Governorate of the /Earth Office/, the Financial Directorate and shall be taken at the same time as the equivalent of the fee. According to the decree of the Minister of 7.VIII.l869 No.135, the cause of the monastery's discipline is ruled out by a large external coercion and no one can be deprived of personal liberty against his will. they may act and acquire ownership in order to preserve the laws governing the disposal of church property. Reholes are represented at tcm by local leaders who must have the consent of provincial ideas when it comes to legal conduct beyond normal management /§ 5th Mini-Sterical Decree of l3.VI.l858 No.95 (z/. In accordance with Section 6 of the same regulation, in all legal proceedings held before the State authorities, the officials must present a certificate to the bishop of their place of residence; in the acquisition of ownership it is necessary to confirm the Bishop's capacity to do so according to his statutes. Finally, it shall be added that according to the Modu vivendi of 2.II.l928 it is necessary that the order and congregation of the religious, whose houses are in Bohemia and Moravia, do not be subject to the provincial superiors living abroad. If it is not possible to establish a province in Bohemian and Morava, these religious houses should be subject directly to the general house. The provincials and the superiors of the religious houses, subject directly to the general house, are to be only the local state - its members. It is certain that all these conditions of existence and activities of religious communities, established by the law of the stables, have been precisely preserved in Emaží and the Merciful Brethren. The German law does not speak of the abolition of order and religious congregation. This is an important article of L5.German Concordate of l0.IX.1933. The quoted article reads: Artikel 15. Orden und religiöse Genossenschaften unterliegen,in Bezug.auf Gründung, Niederlassung, die Zahl und - vorbehaltlich Artikel