ARHIVSKI VJESNIK 51. (ZAGREB, 2008)

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Summary REGISTRY AND RECORD-KEEPING SYSTEM OF THE BAN'S COUNCIL (1848-1850) Paper analyses development of the Registry and record keeping system of the Ban's Council, during the period 1848-1850, when the Council existed, having a role of independent, although temporary, government of Croatia and Slavonia. Council introduccd many novelties in the field of record-keeping in Croatia and Slavonia. It used Croatian language, and introduccd, for the first time, Croatian record-keeping terminology, kept Journals and indexes, similar to nowdays, and developed plan for signing records, to control their distribution to officials and improve their retrieval. The plan was harmonised with organisational structure of the Council, and, at the same time, was corresponding to the main fields of the Council's work. In the beginning the system was limited by existing record-keeping practice and know-how of Clerks working in traditional feudal counties and their registries tili 1848. Novelties were introduced by Ivan Daubači (Joannes Daubachy) who brought knowledge and experience from Hungárián institutions in which he worked tili the Revolution 1848. Developing regulation on management and record keeping system of the Ban's Council (Osnova za upravljanje i rukovodjenje poslovali i pisamah) he implemented practice from those institutions, adapting it to the needs and role of the new body. After his flight from the Council, at the beginning of 1849, his place was given to Franjo Kukuljević, who was trying, same as his predecessor, to make a work of the Registry efficient and succesfull. Both of them had a significant support in Mijat Novak, who was a »manager« of the Registry, in charge for all daily routincs. Daubači's concept of completely centralised control over records, from centralised Registry, was, in the meantime, a little bit changed, under impact of storage restrictions and lack of people in there, although all creators of the system tried to make it function the best way, adapting it to given circumstances. Key words: Ban's Council, record keeping system, »Regulation on management and record keeping system« (Osnova za upravljanje i rukovodjenje poslovah i pisamah), Ivan Daubači, Franjo Kukuljević, Mijat Novak