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

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2h - 14 - the ctc., the sponsorship of the property levy, inheritance fees, mortgage interest, were unbearable. On the question that the Bodonamt was only subject to the land for expropriation and that it was inconceivable how one could demand from the Coburgers the transfer of the other furniture ownership, I declare: This is in favour of the expropriations, but does not vote for the preservation of the Cobourger assets of the financial management. Because mobile assets were also liable for the property tax. Therefore, the Land Office calculated and calculated how the Coburgers could be paid out even more cash after all debt obligations had been settled. This was only possible if the 2 o 22 sign off by approx. 83 million, namely as unfair 8 cents. I myself did not put any pressure on the Cosburgers. I only let them know that the property, as the Coburgers wanted to have paid him, could not be paid, and that if they left the property voluntarily, they could, so to speak, still save the clothes, while otherwise the total collapse would threaten and they would lose their place of residence plus minus zero. When asked why the property could not be paid more expensively, I explain: I was not responsible for the evaluation of the properties. These were rather employed agricultural engineers of the Land Office. The furniture verte- tures were evaluated by the director of the Prague Museum Novotny. The living and dead inventory was also estimated by the technical organizations. I am not entitled to pass a judgment on the assessment. I am a lawyer. If I had been the owner of this office myself, I would have been able to respond to the price of the ground office through counter-assessments, as I do not intend to explain to my person that the price offered was quite low. Only in cases where, in the case of mixed arbitration, the inadequacy of the price is legally challenged