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

(Regional Archives)

inspectorates, the home industry inspectorates and the employment agencies. - The local tasks connected with commerce and transport were in charge of the offices of weights and measures, the exporting departments, the district inspectorates of public roads, the state offices for public works, post directorates and offices, the regional railway managements and stationmaster's offices. — The local specialized organs of educational administration were the district inspectorates ofschools (with a competence of several counties, supervising the public schools) and the inspectorates of schools (in each county, supervising the elementary schools), with the regional school inspectorates. — The organs of war economy were the inspectorates of food. After 1945 there were temporary organs active: the branch offices of the board of popular welfare, the sub-offices of the Government Commissariat of Abandoned Goods, the county land offices administering the distribution of land, the agricultural directorates, the ministerial commissioners of production, the inspectorates of cooperatives, the offices dealing with public labour and labour power, those for the gathering of surplus produce. The volume of the records of the regional organs of specialized administration totals 6 164 running metres, making 5,70 per cent, of the material of regional archives. To the series of archival groups of jurisdiction belong the law courts on different levels (tables, tribunals and district courts), the organs of public prosecution on two levels, penal and correctional institutes, finally the public notaries. The material of judicial organs after 1945 did not come to archival custody yet, except for the records of popular courts, judging war criminals, and the popular attorneys. The volume of the records of regional judicial organs totals 11 266 running metres, 10,42 per cent, of the whole material. Among the archival groups of institutes and institutions the most valuable and of superior quality are those of schools, comprising institutes of higher education (universities, academies, high schools, teachers' training institutes, special schools of administration), medium level education (public and "real" schools, public schools for commerce, trade and agriculture, "lycea" and teachers' training institutes), lower level education ("civic" and lower "real" schools, elementary schools), also special instruction (for viticulture, horticulture, economy, home industry, household attainments, trade and commerce, training schools for nurses, midwives, nursery school mistresses, district nurses, training colleges for teachers of handicapped children, musical), asylums for the blind and the deaf-and-dumb, further the colleges.