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The heads of all offices, institutions, factories and schools shall with the participation of the party and the works stewards, make this our appeal known to all employees and post it up in an appropriate place.

László Dienes Mór Preusz Sándor Vincze

Pesti Levéltár [Archives of the City of Budapest], files of the Statistical Office, 1919, vol. 157.

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Draft decree on the regulation of the Budapest administration.

Proposal of the people’s commissars of the Interior and Justice

to the Federal Central Executive Committee

1919

Supplementing the clauses dealing with local councils in the Constitution of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, the Federal Central Executive Committee regulates the public administration of Budapest as follows:

Section 1.

The working population of Budapest shall manage its public business itself in the district and central councils and in their respective executive committees; it shall frame and enforce the rules, and shall pass judgement on those violating the rules in these assemblies.

Section 2.

The organs of the district administration of Budapest shall be the district councils and their twenty-member executive committees.

Section 3.

It shall be the responsibility of the district councils to promote the economic and cultural welfare of the working population living in the district by all possible means. In matters which concern the city population as a whole, or the country, the district councils shall possess no powers.

The district council shall decide on the general principles of district administration:

a. it shall enforce the decrees of the National Assembly of the Federal Councils, of the Federal Central Executive Committee, the Governing Council, the People’s Commissariats, the Central Council, and other higher authorities;

b. it shall put forward proposals on public administrative questions affecting the city as a whole;

c. it shall maintain the services required to meet the needs of the population;

d. with the approval of the Central Council it shall prepare the budget and the final accounts for the district;

e. it shall elect and dismiss officials and other specialized employees, shall elect, if neces-100