English Translation

93 Copy The President of Prague, on 23 April 1942 Protectorates Bohemia and Moravia L 1278/42. His Excellency the Deputy Imperial Protector in Bohemia and Mähren Reinhard Heydrich, SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Police, Prague. Maaa As I have just been told, the draft government regulation on the Bodenamt for Bohemia and Moravia, to which Your Excellency has already given your consent, has been completed and is to be submitted to me for signature soon. Paragraph 3, para.2 of this draft states: "The chairman of the government and the head of the Land Office may enact legal and administrative provisions within the jurisdiction of the Soil Office." I do not consider this wording sufficiently clear, since it does not make it clear whether the director of the Ground Office will have the right to impose regulations on the chairman of that government (which would lead to a dangerous competition between two legal subjects), or whether he should exercise this right only after the prior consent of the chairmanship of the Government to which he is subject (§3, para.l). On the other hand, it is not apparent from the wording that the right of the head of the Land Office to enact regulations refers merely to the enactment of provisions in accordance with § 2 of the decree of the Reich Protector of 27 February 1942, VBlRProt., p.42, concerning the amendment of certain provisions of the Constitutional Enforcement Act.