Dr. Péter Balázs: Guide to the archives of Hungary (Budapest, 1976)

(Regional Archives)

supplanted by the temporary committee, or the county commission, respectively. The commissioners of the revolutionary government left records of outstanding source value. From 1850 to 1860 the administration was managed by the Imperial-Royal County Authorities and chief constables, the jurisdiction by the Imperial-Royal Tribunals and District Courts. After the transitory administrative and judicial system of the provisional government and the Compromise it was in 1872 that the capitalistic system of county administration was finally developped. From this period of more than 70 years (1872-1944) archival groups of considerable quantity have remained after the Lord Lieutenant, the autonomous municipal commission and its committees (legitimation, central, etc.), the sub-prefect, the chief attorney, the orphans' court, the chief medical officer, the county engineer, the finance office, the auditing office, the veterinary surgeon, the social inspector, the fire-protection inspector, the administrative committee, the chief constables of the districts. As collections one finds the county and village bylaws, the rules of the associations, the working plans of the forests, the records of water conservancy, the registers of public roads, the duplicates of the ecclesiastical registers between 1828 and 1895, etc. From 1945 to 1950 the county offices continued to exist, but with a changed content and character. Of the feudal material of the municipal cities (in this period mostly free royal cities) one ought to mention the records of the elected community, the inner council, the various commissions (economic, orphanal, fireprotection, embellishment, allocation of soldiers, etc.), those of the special offices (tax office, chamberlain, orphans' court, land, audit, customs, engineering) and of the city tribunal. Beside the papers left after the officials several cities had secret archives too. In the period between 1849 and 1871 the special city offices continued to work, but the commission assembly established in 1848 was supplanted by the community council (1850-1860), then for a short time the commission assembly again (1860-1861), later by the elected burgesses (1862-1867), finally by the assembly of city authority (1867-1871). The council continued to work in these years. After 1872, similarly to the counties, these cities had also a Lord Lieutenant, a municipal commission and several commissions (central, legitimation, control commission, etc.). Beside the usually large quantity of records left after the council and the mayor those of the special offices are also significant. The framework of these offices was equally preserved up to 1950. The volume of the counties and municipal cities in the feudal, capitalistic