A Pest Megyei Levéltár. Levéltárismertető (Budapest, 2004)

Seventeen thousand meters of historical source/Introduction of the main archives

the Orphanage Institute and the Head Judges regarding accountancy inspection. They were directly reporting to the Financial Minister through the Director of audit office. The situation changed after 1924: the county audit offices were reorganized due to a new decree and became subordinated to the Minister of Internal Affairs. The county, town, and village budgets, budget keeping of the county and the accounts of foundations can be found in a separate substance within the fond. The Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County Public Administration Committee played an important role in the life of the county. Its role was to prevent authority conflicts between local government and state government authorities, establishing harmony among them. Its chairman was the Lord Lieutenant, and five out of its 20 members were municipal civil servants. The remaining 10 members were appointed by the Convention. It was not a municipal organization but an independent authority. It took measures not only to ensure the undisturbed operation of public administration but also building roads and bridges maintained by the municipal authority, provided assistance in debates related to public works, inspected the work of the state architectural offices, supervised if children of compulsory school age attend school, inspected prison conditions, feeding, discipline, kept an eye on agricultural, forestry and hunting cases, expressed opinion on applications for immigration, etc. It was operating as a Forum of Appeal in disciplinary cases of municipal and village public administration employees working in its area. It completed reports and suggestions to the government in relation to its inspections. The office was reorganized several times, its duties were divided among numerous sub-committees and the documents created during their functioning were sorted into subject groups accordingly. In most cases subjects of the sources created this way coincided with the case classification (economic, taxation, employment, forestry, right to protest, appropriation, public health care, public education, road- and railroad, settlement) of the sub-committees. There were reports made about the meetings of the committees and sub-committees and these are stored in chronological order. The registered documents were classified according to sources, and they can be researched within this classification according to years and base figures. The documents originating from the Chief General Officer of the districts between 1876 and 1944, and those originating from the General Clerks between 1945 and 1950 can be found in this fond main group. There are also military, financial, contravention and industrial cases besides the general public administration documents available. Mostly the documents of officer surgeons and veterinary surgeons had endured, although they are usually incomplete. The documents of the Nógrád and Hont Counties, temporarily united from public administration point of view between 1924 and 1939, relating to Pest County are extremely incomplete. One fond contains the regulation collection of the settlements of the former Szob and Vámosmikola districts belonging to the above-mentioned county, and another contains the collection of fundamental rules. The major part of the remaining documents can be found in the Nógrád County Archives. Our Archives keeps the documents of the Vice-Lieutenant of the 14 villages of the former districts of Ipolyság and Szob belonging to Hungary that originated from the archives 171