ARHIVSKI VJESNIK 49. (ZAGREB, 2006)

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Summary RECORDS MANAGEMENT AND REGISTRY SYSTEM OF CROATIAN-SLAVONIC REGENCY (1854-1861) The article describes records management and registry system (»Registratur« system) of Croatian-Slavonic Regency in Zagreb (1854-1861), as highest governmental body on the territory of the Krownland of Croatia and Slavonia during the period of neoapsolutism in Habsburg's Monarchy. Comparing its records management system with facts known on the same issue from neighboring territories (Carniola, Styria, Soron County in Hungary) the author recognizes similarities of those records management and registry Systems, created on the basis of common Instructions dating from 1850ies, Coming from the highest governmental bodies in the Monarchy. Instructions were concerning records management issues with intention to make records management Systems of lower positioned administrative bodies simpler and more similar one to each other, especially their registry plans. Registry plans (»Registratur« plans) of Zagreb's Regency were made by Markus Kremser, clerk originally working in the Regency in Graz. He was invited to Zagreb with purpose to help in plans' creation. He created two different plans, one for the Presidency of the Regency and another one for its departments. Above similarities with neighboring registry plans, based on the similar mandates of the regencies, Kremser also included specific subjects of Zagreb's Regency, involving them as parts of the groupings of subjects (so called »bundles«). Basic elements of the records management Systems of the Regency's successors - Regency Council (1861-1869) and Land's Government (1869-1918) - were created in this period, being fürther developed. Registry plans were later becoming more and more comprehensive and systematic, with intention to better aecommodate to new mandates and needs of administration. The basic elements further developed (during Land's Government) were subject groupings, becoming so called »registry bundles«, in which records were concentrated around similar subjects during more years each after others, in so called registry periods (3-5 years), being also grouped at lower levels - as parts of file units - around, so called, radical numbers - i.e. around main numbers of subject flies, given in the Journals to the first incoming or outcoming paper of the file. The characteristic of papers' groupings, as parts of registry bundles, around main or radical numbers of files, is specific for the Austrian administration of the second half of the 19th Century, but was sometimes, in the archivál literature, wrongly dated as later innovation, from around 1900. Key words: Croatian-Slavonic Regency, Markus Kremser, records management system, registry plan, registry bündle, radical number, registry period