Soós László (szerk.): Magyar Minisztertanácsi jegyzőkönyvek 1867-1918. A Khuen-Héderváry és a Tisza kormány minisztertanácsi jegyzőkönyvei - A Magyar Országos Levéltár kiadványai, II. Forráskiadványok 56. (Budapest, 2018)
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therefore no particularly essential modifications were suggested. The concessions for the government were supposed to be given by Franz Joseph I. Although the Minister of the King’s Affairs admitted in March 1896 that the cases submitted to the king augmented significantly, nonetheless he could not see any opportunity for narrowing the royal powers. In March 1897 the Hungarian Council of Ministers re-negotiated the cases under royal decision, the draft made on this occasion was approved with slight modifications by the Monarch. Emma Iványi in her above mentioned work gives details about the regulation of 1867, discussing the extent it matches or differs from that of 1897. It can be briefly stated that Franz Joseph I, who was firmly attached to his sovereignty, did not make any substantial concessions for the government in the new regulations. The 27-point list of ‘Cases to be Submitted Under the Decision of the Council of Ministers’ was accepted in 1897, and it was far from covering the functions of the government activities. Even between 1867 and 1895 several laws were passed, and some cases - with enlargement of powers - had been submitted to the Council of Ministers. Besides these, the ruler’s and parliamentary decisions also contained instructions referring to power of the Council of Ministers. It can be said generally, that members of the government handled the above-mentioned regulations only as a general instruction, and in some cases - where beside important questions, less significant ones also appeared in great number - they were completed in agreement with the Monarch. Throughout the whole period when the agenda items and the power of the meetings of the Council of Ministers held by the Khuen-Héderváry and Tisza governments had been decided, the new regulations accepted in 1897 had been in force. According to previous practice, the ministers did not stiffly adhere to the points of the regulations of 1897, they used it only as a guide showing the most important driving directions. Written proposals submitted to the Council of Ministers were made by the experts of the different ministries. The submissions contained the short description of the given case and the suggested proposal to solve it. The text of the submission was finalised considering the comments of the meeting and the written modifications. From the period of the Khuen-Héderváry government (129 days) twelve minutes of the Council of Ministers are published here. During these meetings 184 agenda items were discussed, out of which 55 items are published here in full length or in abstract. Agenda items regarding the following cases have been omitted: • personal affairs (awarding titles, appointments, honours, allowances, donating noble prefixes, retirements, releases etc.): 85 agenda items. Some of the missed personal affairs is mentioned in the annex of this publication with the title: ‘List of Significant People in the Unpublished Agenda Items’ • dissaving of state organs, overdraft: 6 agenda items • unexpected expenditures: 6 agenda items • competence conflicts: 24 agenda items • leases, defaulted exposures, authorization of surcharges: 4 agenda items • announcement of railway preliminary work permits: 1 agenda item • other less significant cases (appointments of suppliers of His Majesty, reports on construction works): 2 agenda items 826
