STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 82, sig. 109-1/88 Page 16 · 16 of 17
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 82, sig. 109-1/88
English Translation
7. Whether the Upper Land Councils currently in operation in the field of general administration are still in existence is not yet to be definitively overlooked; to some extent they are also likely to have to be maintained as national authorities, as civil registration offices, etc., and to be set up. The Upper Land Councils have been attached by the Commander-in-Chief of the Army as the holder of the executive powers in support of the District Main Teams and the Faehbchörden of the Lower Authority. As far as support for the municipal authorities is concerned, special district commissioners are provided for, which can be set up by the Oberlandraten and are directly subordinated to it.The Oberlandrets are under the responsibility of the head of the civil administration at the army group,in which the entire civil administration unites, avoiding any division of professional and other kinds. District commissioners, supreme councillors and head of the civil administration do not themselves exercise the administration, but they only supervise the administration of the protectorate. Accordingly, the business traffic is carried out in such a way that the government of the Protectorate manages all the envy to subordinate authorities through the supreme council. The Oberlandrats may, if necessary, engage in the transport of the protectorate authorities under their supervision with the Protectorate Government. They are also authorised to call on the decision of the chief of the civil administration in case of concerns against orders of the state government. The district councillors can lift orders from the district principal teams and replace them with their own in urgent cases. The district commissioners have the same position in the relationship between the district chief team and the municipal authorities. Whether supervision of the protectorate authorities must be maintained in this respect, as already mentioned above, is not yet foreseen. 8. It corresponds to the yillen of the Pührer that the Czechs are treated in the form of conciliant, but in the matter with the greatest rigour and incomparable consequence. The Czech understands his