Petrović, Nikola: Hajózás és gazdálkodás a Közép-Duna-Medencében a merkantilizmus korában (Vajdasági Tudományos és Művészeti Akadémia, Novi Sad - Történelmi Intézet, Beograd, 1982)
Summary
But, thé company was nevertheless compelled to continue running the canal by order of the state authorites. The contracts for the estates were not renewed, but the company still exploited 3352 acres of land, some inns, butcheries and water and tread mills. The negotiations between it and the state dragged on for 15 years. Only in 1842 did canal finally become state property. In 1851 the enternace works, a perennial problem, were moved upstream, to B°zdan, and a concrete gate constructed on it, the first of its kind in Europe In 1870, after the Austrian—Hungarian treaty of 1867, the Hungarian government passed an act handing the exploitation of the Danube—Tisza canal to István Turr, one of the leaders of the 1848—49 revolution in Hungary, who had returned from a long exile. He ascepted it and founded a stock company, with a capital of 13.5 forints sic, in which English capital accounted for 72 pet of the stock. Then a new canal was constructed from Mali Stapari to Novi Sad, one branch of which linked the old canal with the Danube and which was also intended for irrigation. The new company promised to make a canal from Baja to Bezdan, to better supply the Danube—Tisza canal with water. After this reconstruction, the whole canal was 123 km long. CHAPTER XVI - EPILOGUE. FATE OF THE CONSTRUCTORS AFTER FROM THE COMPANY After all connections between the company and the Kiss brothers had been severed in 1798, attempts were made to clear up the very confused relationships between them. The brothers had been linked with the company as designers, as construction engineers, as co—owners of the civil engineering enterprise which was building the canal, and finally, as shareholders. As co—owners of the enterprise, they had deposited a security of 50,000 forints with the company. The new management inexorably set about settling financial matters with the brothers. As time passed, it become more and more apparent that affairs, especially in the case of the contracting enterprise, had been much more entangled than was at first thought. In November 1798, F. von Radi expressed doubt that they could ever be cleared up, because, though it was known how much money had been spent there were no records of what it had been spent on. If was not known how much any of the locks cost! If was not until the end of 1799 that the financial account with the Kiss brothers was drown up. And in the meantime, Gabor Kiss did not have the right to return to his post in the imperial army. The matter, finally, drew even the emperor's attention. In March 1800, the head office of the company informed the Court Chamber that the Kiss brothers had withaut authorits drawn a sum of 64604 512
