The National Archives of Hungary (Budapest, 2006)

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL ARCHIVES OF NATIONAL COLLECTION - Hungarian National Archives by Géza Érszegi and István G. Vass

minister personally in charge or by one of the leaders of the ministry to whom the legal right had to do so. The legislative work of the Hungarian Parliament - except the years between 1918 and 1927 - was done through the bicameral system: Chamber of Deputies and Table of Magnates (Upper House between 1927 and 1944). The documents of Chamber of Deputies are available continuously from 1865-1868 during the parliamentary years until the end of World War II. The written material includes precepts of the king of the governor-general and replies to them presented bills, documents of committee and minutes of parliamentary meetings in connection with them and their passed bills. A very important part of the Archives of Parliament is the one that contains the written records of different committees- immunity, public law, financial, economic, minority etc. The head of the state henceforward was the king between 1867 and 1918 and after the revolutions. Between the years 1920 and 1944 it was the governorgeneral. The largest record collection of the official archives of the head of the state is the written documents of the Ministry for the Person of the King, which involves the documents of the nobility -grants and ranks and the Royal Books originating from between the years 1861 and 1918. More precisely, they are the authentic registry of privileges granted by the king and the whole texts of letters-patents. Besides these, as the ministry played an intermediate role between the ruler and the Hungarian government, this interaction was reflected in the records in various ways. In addition the surviving, fragmented correspondence of Charles IV is kept in the archives of the head of the state. And documents of the cabinet of Miklós Horthy, the governor-general can be found here o(ver halfofficial correspondence as governor-general). The most important governmental decisions were made by the cabinet council and the governing council. The records of these were left essentially is intact; together with the submissions belonging to them. The most significant task of the Prime Minister's office was to organize governmental work and harmonize the disparate activities of different ministries. It also had to arrange the affairs of different nationalities and minorities, the affairs of the Hungarian people living just outside the border and also the easing up on restrictions on press censorship, social politics and so on. The Home Office and its subordinated organizations, (1867 - 1945), function was to guide the internal affairs of the country, to co-ordinate regional and local organizations of public law and oversee its legality supervision, to oversee problems of affairs of public law and policing and to arrange public welfare and public health cases. The Archives of Ministry of Foreign Affairs include the documents that came