94 Toward the end of 1718 it became clear that the original timetable for the transition to the new administrative system could not be met, and on December 12 the tsar announced that “since they have still not administered according to the new manner, during 1719 they shall administer according to the old manner, and in 1720 according to the new. ’• 223 5. The Personnel and Salary Budgets of the Colleges A fundamental requirement for stable and effective administration was the regular payment of salaries to the civil servants employed by the various government organs. Therefore, one of the foremost goals of the Petrine government was to find a method for the regular payment of salaries to the military and to the civil administration. The practice in Sweden was for the statskontoret to draw up a state budget each year showing the salaries to be paid to each civil servant and the source of the state revenue from which each of those salaries was to come. In order to provide a permanent economic base for the payment of these salaries, the so-called allotment system had been developed during the seventeenth century, by which specific state revenues were assigned to cover the recurring disbursements listed in the annual budgets. Once cstablished, such allotments were not to be tampered with, but were to be made a permanent part of the budget as far as was possible. In the event that some source of income failed to materialize in a given year, or fell short of its expected revenue, the expenditure or expenditures it was meant to cover could not be met by another source of allotted Income without disruptlng the entire financial system.--'* Listed in the state budget at fixed rates for each category of civil or military officer, Swedish salaries were so uniform that one may speak of the existence of a regular salary scale in the state administratlon.^'^'^* However, the salaries paid to the various categories of civil servants and officers varied greatly in size. In the kammarkollegium, for example, salaries ranged from the 11,250 dsmt paid to the president. Count Nils Strömberg, to the 1,800 dsmt paid to the councillors, and the 300 or 1719 emphasized the following: “The personnel of the colleges of all ranks shall get along with one another in all harmony and with appropriate respect, and all order and a suitable politeness shall be maintained by their councillors and there shall be no disturbances or unsuitable words in this state college.” PSZ, V, no. 3,384, p. 713. 2A (no. 261), 217; PSZ, V, no. 3,255, p. 601. For a more detailed account of the budget of the realm and the allotment system, .see p. 191. Ingvar Elmroth, Nyrekryteringen till de högre ämbetena 1720—1809 (Lund, 1962), 16—17; see Elmroth’s table of salaries and ranks; ibid., 14—15. 223
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