Fatuska János – Fülöp Éva Mária – ifj. Gyuszi László (szerk.): Annales Tataienses II. A mezőváros, mint uradalmi központ. Mecénás Közalapítvány. Tata, 2001.

Fatuska János: Tata II. József igazgatási reformjaiban

The town of Tata in the administrative reforms of Joseph EL (1785 —1786) János Fatuska The essay studies the administrative reforms of Joseph II. and their relations to Tata. The sovereign studied in principal the racionalization of the administration in the Handbillet, the document that was addressed to the chief of the government authorities in 1781. The language and the census decree that were published in 1784 prohibited the counties from the correspondence with each other in political affairs. He also set for putting an end to the self government of the counties and started to work out the basic forms of the counties' administration. Back in 1784 he worked out his lengthy and overall study titled Gondolatok a magyar Királyság alkotmányáról, s annak jelenlegi állapotáról and in 1785 he published his main decision titled Tervezet Magyarország alkotmányának megjavítására. According to the Tervezet the country had to be divided into eight districts. After all, ten districts had been made and among them there was the district of Győr including Vas, Sopron, Mosón, Győr, Veszprém and Komárom counties. In the new system, the high-sheriffs did not have distinctive functions, their duties had been taken over by the district commissioners. Back in this year the principles and proposals for unifying the certain counties were also worked out. The considerably different size of the counties and, for this reason, their inequality in the number of inhabitants and in the tax system had given grounds for the above mentioned acts. In 1786 Komárom and Esztergom counties were joined. Four districts had been formed in the joined county and each district had been given three zones including from thirteen to eighteen communities. The district of Tata had become the second one in the county. Bana, Kocs and Tata had become the chief towns of the three zones. Eighteen communities belonged to Tata. By this union a required size county had been established, by forming the zones, having connections with the authorities had become simpler and the size of the administrative apparatus had been reduced. This process had made some significant savings. Neither the formal two chief towns nor the other suggested ones were considered suitable by Count Ferenc Győry, the district's commissioner. He offered Tata for the place of the chief town and with this suggestion the chancellery also agreed. They wanted to buy the houses, which were in possession of the Both and Deák families, for the county archives and for other institutions. In 1787 Győry suggested that they should make use of the Piarist Convent in Tata for the county administration. There had already been a decision about making use of the dissoluted monastic orders for similar purposes. However, in the case of Tata they wanted to decide on an active scholastic order. But they did not take any steps in the case and the Turkish war that began at the end of 1787 81