Borsodi Levéltári Évkönyv 2. (Miskolc, 1979)
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Ferenc Szebenyi, who had opened the office and, together with his son, had been given later a contribution in kind to help them maintain the posting-house. Their successor, János Konecsny had to go to all lengths to get the lease as a deliverer-postmaster from the town-council of Kassa with the help of the council of governor-general. The correspondence related to this (application, standpoint) gives a description of the conditions typical of the working and finances of a post-office in the last century. Data are given concerning the contact between the posting-house and the domain in Forró from the books of accounts of the years 1795 and 1798. The departmental order signed by Ágoston Trefort on the assignment of István Farkas to the postmaster, who had held this position during and after the war of independence of 1848/49 in the countrytown Forró and the new postmaster’s statement are of historic interest which refer to the administration of the revolutionary government and its efforts to regulate the functions of the post. The study writes about the most important events in the life of the office from the second half of the century on, e. g. about the change in the post of the head official and its being equipped with a telegraphic apparatus and with telephone. Using the material of the Archives of Kassa and that of the Archives of Post- Museum the study offers a realistic picture of the life at the posting-house in Forró, its routes and the running of mail-coaches. A Branch of the 19th Century-Farming in the Reformed Parish of Kesznyéten Imre Galuska In the oldest steward’s book of accounts opened in 1815 by the reformed parish of Kesznyéten receipts and expenses referring to stock-raising are to be found in the very first year. The number of animals had always been increased by donations of weaned calves in addition to the natural increase. The biggest stock consisting of 14 animals was in 1822. Once the Church itself was the donor: the teacher, a victim of a fire, had been given a nice cow. Besides good pasture lands it was the unity of the politia and ecclesia that provided an opportunity for stock-raising. During razing the stock stayed in the common pasture, in winter they were fed by the community (later by the joint tenants). Very rarely, probably in an unusual season were the costs of keeping in winter imposed on the inhabitants. The animals were bought and sold by church-wardens in the presence of sworn witnesses, and a part of their final accounts was to account for the animals by the piece. The donation of steer was strikingly rare. The congregation with an obvious regard to the castration interdict of Old Testament did not castrate but bred bulls and kept them in the common pasture. The stock-raising by the congregation in Kesznyéten is not a unique occurrence. I have data, however, only for the congregation of Igrici and Taktaszada in this district. Whereas I have the more from the neighbouring region of the Church District of East of the River Tisza, from the former Diocese of Lower Szabolcs and County Hajdú, and from Mikepércs in the vicinity of Debrecen. The village itself also had cattle. Out of this more ancient, village stock-raising could the stock-raising of the congregation have developed, perhaps towards the end of the 18th 268
