107 able personnel with experience in administrative affairs, and this pool was not large enough to meet the needs of the central and local administration. As early as 1713, complaints had been registered about “the shortage of pod'iachie" {maloliudstvo pod'iachikh).-^'^ The shortage of civil servants became acute when the new central and local administrative organs based on Swedish models were introduced.-^® The majority of the more qualified positions had to be left vacant, and even the demand for lower office personnel could not be met.-’” When, in 1720, the colleges submitted reports to the Senate concerning their current staff situations, five of them put in requests for additional personnel totalling 266 positions, as is shown in the table below.-®” College of state revenues College College of College revenue justice auditing commerce Estimates office Position of of vice president .... college councillor . budget commissioner college assessor . . . secretary chief accountant . . notary actuary president’s secretary commissary assistant accountant pod’iachie: 1 (1) 1 (8) 2 1 I •I (1) 1 (20) II 5 4 1 (5) 2 1 1 (5) 4 1 1 (2) 1 (1) 1 (3) I 1 1 (17) 16 1 (12) 12 15 13 2 (40) 12 3 fiskal translator vice fiskal archivist chancellerist j’unlor chancellcrist copyist bookbinder messenger scribe guard (5) 1 1 1 2 1 1 (2) (1) 1 2 (2) (26) 3 16 4 3 (22) 17 3 (73) 11 42 6 14 (1) 1 (12) 12 2 (4) 2 (3) 3 totals (266) 17 30 45 104 70 The colleges, then, had by no means been able to fill all the positions necessary for the performance of their respective missions. 2^' WiTTRAM, II, 123, 536. TsGADA, f. 248 delo 42 11. 113—114, 164; PSZ, V, no. 3,262, pp. 604—605; Demidova, 228. Hermann von Brevern had the following to say about the college of justice: “Das Rcichs Justiz-collegium hat elnen Prasidenten und Vice-Prasidenten, crmangele aber noch dcr Beisitzer, und die Kräfte der belden genannten seien nicht ausreichend, um ohne hinlangliche anderweitige Beihiilfe das Collegium zu formiren.” Von Bunge, V, 252. TsGADA, f. 248 delo 606, 11. 201v, 202v, 205, 207v, 214. 279 280
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