THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1459, sig. 109-4/1213

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313 - 4 - On condition that during my term of office he had become a man, I declare: He had not become rich with me. He was said to have greatly enriched himself, as I have heard, after my time in the state forestry administration. When he managed the Coburg Forests for Stantsrechnung. Nykl explains this: The Staniek, however, has already done the greatest luxury during the time of the administration, and two of them mainly during this appointment; he has made large expenditures in Prague and Pressburg. I don't know if he has stolen later, but it can be assumed. In addition, when I negotiated in the year l930 a compensation for the assistance I had received in the Magncsit-Event case, I said to Razim on the way home, "Let him consider whether these basic inconsistencies will avenge him once. By this I meant all the fraudsters, the terrorist of the Land Office, soine own action and the whole treatment of the Coburgor. Razim always boasted that the most difficult cases of legal bending in the Land Authority were handed over to him to clean up. He also boasted, that he had pulled himself out of an evil change affair immensely skillfully. Razim then explains that it is true that he has kept something like this up to me, namely my behaviour in the ground office. I cannot remember a bad change affair. However, it would be better if Ing. Nykl also cracked the fact that he once told me that he was about 80.oo0.-- Kc. to a notary in Bratislava so that he can arrange and evaluate the coburger's assets as it would fit him. Nykl explains this; I have never stabbed a notar. It seems to me that Dr. Razim is wrong. I have paid from ciner for a private inventory for account