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120 va”).326 chapters of the General Regulation defining the duties of the various collegial officials thus constituted brief descriptions of the corresponding Swedish positions based on the practical activities of the Swedish collegial officials, rather than on some Swedish administrative statute. An example of this is provided by the description of the responsibilities of registrars: The registrar[’s] task consists of collecting the letters, putting them into bundles, making clean copies, copying all documents and letters which have been sent from the colleges and received by the colleges during the year, for which reason he shall keep a journal or make daily notes of all correspondence during the entire year, note down in alphabetical order in four books the matters which have been dealt with in the college and where each matter has been sent, in the first book those which have been sent to His Tsarist Majesty, in the second the matters which have been sent to other colleges, gubernii, officials and others, in the third the ukazes which, during the year, have been received by the college fromHis Tsarist Majesty and the Senate and the originals, which are to be bound, in the fourth all original letters, informations, memorials, supplications, and news from the provinces which have been received by the college from other colleges and gubernii and from other officials and subjects. 327 There are direct references to Swedish law in the preliminary papers which served as the working materials for the formulation of the General Regulation. In reference to the fourth edition’s chapter on the judicial competencies of the colleges, Anisim Shchukin noted that “Vice President [von] Brevern has been instructed to investigate this point in accordance with the Swedish law.” Here, then, Hermann von Brevern’s special knowledge as a former judge in the Livonian court of appeals was put to use,^2* but the matter was actually solved by Heinrich Pick. In the “addition to the General Regulation” mentioned above. Pick made distinctions in the judicial areas of competence of the Russian colleges which were, for all practical purposes in agreement with those observed in the Swedish system. All so-called “accounting” cases were to be dealt with by the revizion^kollegiia, while “other cases not concerning the revenues are to be judged and punished in the iustits-kollegiia, where, in addition, all private cases and disputes (concerning) collegial servants are to be adjudicated.” The crimes committed by military men in the exercise of their duties were to be investigated and adjudicated in the two military colleges.^**® The iustits-kollegiia corresponded to the Svea Court of Appeals *26 TsGADA, f. 248 delo 654 I. 34. *27 Ibid., 1. 35v. The same series are to be found in the Swedish colleges; see, for example, the catalogue for Kammarkollegiets kansliarkiv, RA. ZA (no. 400), 458. See p. 321. ZA (no. 400), 476. 328 329 330

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