Nyakas Miklós: Nánási Oláh Mihály hajdúkerületi főkapitány 1760-1838 / Hajdúsági Közlemények 15. (Hajdúböszörmény, 1987)

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tence of the district general assembly according to the centuries old practice, so he was elected directly, and the ruler assented to it. However in 1809 the order of the election changed, and it meant the increased strengthening of government control. Namely from this time the district general assembly proposed three persons, and from the ruler chose the captaingeneral. Generally can be observed that from the end of the 18th. century the state power more and more intervened in the inner cases of the district, and it was even asserted, because from this time the inner social problems and conflicts of the district became strained, that greatly contributed to the constant delegation of the royal commissioners to the injury of the autonomy of the heyduck-towns. In 1809 Nánási Oláh Mihály was proposed for captain-general's position and it was affirmed by the ruler, too. From the beginning his captaingeneral's activity was determined by those principles, that were characteristic before, too. Concretely it appeare in two fields. In one respect in stopping the malcontent's movement of the heyduck-towns, and in the safeguarding of power of the classes with patient of nobility, and in close connection with it in forcing the authority of the state power, namely the royal commissioner's authority back. That is in the towns of the Heyduckdistrict a very strained sociai struggle raged about giving out of the yet unallotted lands, the order of the tax and the minor town services. The royal decree of 1821 and 1824 was particularly detrimental. According to it the nobility and the heyduck-nobility had to pay tax after their fortune and individual, too. Namely these caused such a disorder that resulted in a serious confusion in public administration, too. For warding it off and safeguarding the interests of the heyduck-nobility, the captaingeneral compiled that memorial of the Heyduck-district, of which appearance was put to a later date in historical literature incorrectly, and in which the captain-general wanted to certify the heyduck's rights before the hungarian orders. He was an envoy of the diet several times. For the last time during the Diet in 1825/27. Mandate of the Heyduck-district practically obligated him to continue the previous politics, namely he waited for the dissolution of the royal commissary institution. He thought it could have been realized if they reorganized the inner social structure of the Heyduckdistrict similarly to the noble counties, namely if they set a regent with Lord Lieutenant's authority to lead the district. It was a requirement earlier, too. They were convinced to reach it, if they trusted the diet with the inner organization of the district, since they were afraid of the measures of government offices rigthly. However a law concerned the heyduck-towns didn't appear at the Hungarian Diet till 1848. Therefore the inner social strained relations remained until the bourgeois revolution. The personnel of that time was only partly responsible for it. So in Nánási Oláh Mihály's case we see a typical and important politician of that age, whose activity was determined by the reality of the heyduck-towns, and it was absolutely different, than the citadel of the noble reformatory, the noble county. 86