The National Archives of Hungary (Budapest, 2006)
MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES - Town, City Archives by András Horváth J.
18 th century, was responsible for making regular inspections, managing town affairs, administration, codifying archival materials and finally, providing a storage facility for documents. At the very beginning the notary (nótárius) did the job of the archivist and arranged the written affairs of the town. The notary also controlled the work of town chancellery which became more and more important as the administration became more multilateral. The formation of a new title became essential because it could no longer done as a daily routine. The job consisted of the following responsibilities: to arrange the ever growing quantity of written material, to do registry Matrixes from the Archives of the Capital of Budapest and lists and since this job was necessary it had to be paid. There was possibility for an appointment in Buda in 1776 as the result of approval of the royal commissioner. Although the archivist with jurist qualification was considered a senior civil servant up to 1929, the town archives did only archival and filing work until 1950. The situation of Budapest was different in that from 1901, the archives held only documents that were older than 15 years old. It separated the current filing from archival functions. The archivists employed by the capital dealt mainly with town history publications and issuing and editing town documents as well as individual research. During the decades of socialism the establishing of an independent town archives became virtually impossible because of the regulation of 1950, the written material of the county and town archives of government-board were unified into a state regional institutional network. Until the political changes only the extended capital archives maintained its independence and its town archives character. Although direct state support of the archives was terminated in 1968 and came under the maintenance of councils of certain towns, settlements could establish institutions of their own and a collection area based on the new law of self-government and archives. Among the present five town archives (in reality, one archives of the capital and four archives of settlements, self-government) the Archives of Budapest Capital contain the most material, the largest portion being of the total The Seal of the Archives written material for the entire country. There of Capital Town of Budapest
