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

Bács-Kiskun Megyei Levéltár (Bács-Kiskun County Archives)

were located in built-in stacks. In connection with this a new arrangement was executed, finished in the 1920s, embracing all records which came to being up to 1920. From 1904 the Archives had a standing personnel, used for administrative management again from the years of World War II. The archivists did not do scientific work up to 1950. However, from the 1870s several historical works of standing value have been published on the basis of the archival material. In the course of World War II the material of the Archives suffered a damage of 8 to 10 per cent. The holdings of to-day total 2900 current metres. The most important basic material of the repository is the archives of Békés county. The records and journals of the nobilitary general assembly are preserved from the years 1715 to 1848 with some defects, the records and protocols of the county court from the same years with major lacks. A very rich archival group is made up by the county material of the centralized administration under Emperor Joseph II (1786-1790). The collection of assessments of the single localities between 1772 and 1845 is well preserved. Among the archival groups of the capitalist period the very rich material of the years 1848-1849 and also the following archival groups of the Austrian administration between 1850 and 1867 are outstanding: the records of the Èékés-Csanad County Authority (1850-1860), the records of substitute Lord-Lieutenant of Békés county (1862-1865), the records of the chief constable of Csaba district (1849-1860), those of the chief constable of Battonya district (1850-1867). Among the county archival groups from the time after the Austro-Hungarian compromise in 1867 in spite of their many lacks the following are important: the records of the Lord-Lieutenant of Békés county (1880-1933), those of its sub-prefect (1867-1933), those of the most frequently sitting organ of self-government, the Administrative Committee (1876-1933), further those of the representation of the self-government, the Municipal Board (journals 1872-1937 and 1940-1941). Of the records of the chief constables only those of the Orosháza (1938-1944), of the Gyoma (1936-1944) districts and of the Battonya (1867-1944) and of Mezó'kovácsháza (1872-1944) districts of Csanád county are preserved in a usable measure. Rich material is contained both in the archival groups of the county and the districts from the years 1944 to 1950. Békés county consists of boroughs of large extension and populous