Kujbusné Mecsei Éva - Mykhailo Mishuk (szerk.): Bereg vármegye pecsétjei - A Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg Megyei Levéltár Kiadványai II. Közlemények 47. (Nyíregyháza, 2017)
language” and a new case for the seal. To that end, they needed to apply for the "grace of His Majesty the King to approve the request.” The proposal was accepted, and from 2,000 Forints, a sum that had remained from the restoration money, a new seal and a case were made. The new seal carried the circular inscription, following the round shape of the seal: The Seal of Beregh County, 1836. The use of that inscription also required the authorization of the monarch. The old seal, similarly to old coins, was trusted to the care of the head of the military tax collectors. In response to the application no. 1034, forwarded on the 5th of September 1836, the Chancellary dispatched the following letter no. 14636, dated on the 27th of October, to the county: ”By the grace of His Majesty the King, the present order is issued to His Excellency, Counsellor to the King and Erst vice-prefect of the county, György Bay of Ludány and Csorna, to have a duly ornamental drawing of the formerly used emblems and symbols of the county made and, together with the necessary inscription of the established national language, included in a Charter of Privilege. Then, the Charter should be officially issued, and a new signet manufactured in accordance with the Charter as soon as possible.” 35 36 37 The royal charter of privilege, ’’with a seal hanging on a golden cord on it, and issued by the grace of His Majesty Ferdinand V”, dated 28th of October 1836, was read out and officially ratified at the session of the county assembly on the 5th of June 1837. "’ In the charter the monarch authorizes the county to use the old coat-of-arms of the county, complemented with the inscription in Hungarian and all "the accustomed symbols,” and obliges the county to verify all official documents with that seal. The vice-prefect showed the assembly the two original signets, “one of which was made out of richly ornamented gold, and the other made out of steel in a similar fashion.” The latter was meant for permanent, regular use, in order to save the golden signet. The estates of the county received the new signet, representing the dignity and authority of the county, with pleasure and satisfaction, and approved of the regular use of the steel signet. They requested the vice-prefect to render the old signet entirely useless by cutting a cross into it, and inform all the other counties about the new signet. The old signet was then to be sent to the National Museum, together with the ancient seal of the Czobor family, found among the ruins of the Vámosatya fortress. László jósa Pankotai handed the old seal over to the vice-prefect, to be sent to the National Museum, where two old signets were placed in the collection of Bereg county, together with an ancient gold coin unearthed on the hill top of Závodfalva.3 35 KAL Fond 10. Opisz 3. od.zb. 192.1836-37. jkv.; MNL OL A. 57 - 66. vol. - 475. p.; MNL OL A 39 - a - 1836 -No. 146636 36 KÁL, Fond 10. Opisz 3. od.zb. 263.1837. jkv. entry no. 709. 37 Ibid, entry no. 728. 39
