A Pest Megyei Levéltár. Levéltárismertető (Budapest, 2004)

Seventeen thousand meters of historical source/Introduction of the main archives

originate from the beginning of the 16

th century. Upon a ministerial decree the settlements of Pest'Pilis-Solt County and the vestries of Solt District in 1873 provided the county Archives with their old stamp prints preserved from the feudal age, and the stamp legends were put on separate sheets. Later on upon the order of the Vice-Lieutenant the prints of the rubber stamps were also sent to the Archive. There can be settlement stamp-prints taken from other fonds seen in the collection. The documents of die county municipal authority after 1848 We can provide the researchers with ampler materials from the 1850s. There are approximately 30 linear meters available in our Archives from the documents of Pest, Kalocsa and Kecskemét county authorities. The documents of the public prosecutor's departments (Pest, Kecskemét), the Pest and the Buda counties and the national lawcourts, furthermore the Kecskemét county lawcourt, the Pest-Pilis and Pest-Solt County copyholding lawcourt had lasted in a good condition. There is an abundant map collection (332 pieces) belonging to these latter ones. Starting from 1850 when the county was divided into two (Pest-Pilis and Pest-Solt) due to the implementation of the district system, we have had a significant amount of material from the district court-, general court- and chief constable s office. Besides the public administration, the civil and the disciplinary punishment documents, the orphan court documents had also endured from several districts. We have documents in larger amounts from the Lord Lieutenant, the locumtenens, the Vice-Lieutenant, the county Controller Office, the central orphanage, the Orphan Tribunal out of the county offices and civil and disciplinary punishment documents of the county tribunal starting from 1861. We also have the reports of the county conventions from this era, and they are available on microfilm. Their research ability of these documents depends in a great extent on how well they are supplied with aid. Information regarding this is available in the stock register. We must mention though that aid has only remained very incomplete except some fonds. At the time the Conciliation Pact Pest-Pilis-Solt County had been established according to the public law, and could restart its operation. During the reorganization of public administration in 1876 the Kiskun areas were attached to the above-mentioned county and that is when Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County came into existence. There were abundant fonds easy to research preserved for posterity from this time up to the 1950s. The head of the county was the Lord Lieutenant appointed by the head of state. Actually he was a member of the executive authority, as being the confidential secretary of the government in power had an extended right of control above the municipalities. We have been saving more than 120 linear meters of the documents of the Lord Lieuteiiant of he Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County. The reports of the County Municipality Committee (Convention) from between 1876 and 1949 have remained complete. We have made a microfilm about them and it is available for researchers in our research room. The Convention had seen almost all-important 168