STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 131, sig. 109-2/32

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3u8 The Imperial Protector of Prague, 20 October 1942. in Bohemia and Moravia II/7-3006 = 1st copy. PONOu Note: A) Pormelle Treatment of the budget estimate l942: The Council of Ministers Bureau, by letter of 20 December lg4l, adopted a draft government decree of 18 December 1942. Until its adoption, the Protectorate, acting on the basis of the Government Regulation No 45o/l94l g on the provisional management of the operation of the Protectorates in l942 in the context of the approved budget l94l. The reorganization of the central authorities by the Re=gierungsverordnungen of 15. 1st and 15. 6. 1942 he= demanded as a result of the dissolution of ministries and the transfer of tasks from the sphere of activity of individual ministries to other central authorities greater shifts within the budget. Several chapters ) disappeared, new ones were added, in many cases major changes were made, and it was therefore necessary to rework the budget estimates in full and to adapt them to the reorganisation of the central authorities. In order to simplify administrative work and to allow individual parts of the protectorate administration to operate as soon as possible in accordance with estimates 1942, the Finance Group at the Ministry of Finance continued to submit the parts of budget estimates 1 942, which were not affected by the reorganisation or could be completed with their progress, to a review without delay. A formal approval of individual parts of the budget was not possible because the budget constituted a single whole and only approved as such 40