162 For its work, the college also had to receive detailed information about the funds required by the state “so that the kamer-kollegiia will know how much is needed for expenditures each year [and] so that when the need arises it can collect extraordinary taxes and bring together the necessary sums of money ahead of time.” For this reason, it was clearly stated in the instruktsiia that the shtats-kontor-kollegiia was to send to the kamer-kollegiia an annual report about how the state revenues had been used in the state budget.^®^ In Sweden, the statskontoret was under similar orders to inform the kammarkollegium about its work with the budget. The idea was that the kammarkollegium would in this manner see how the revenues it collected were allocated, and that it would even be able to judge to what extent it might be necessary to increase state incomes. The basis for taxation of the peasants in Sweden was the rents journal In connection with Charles XI’s refinement of the socalled allotment system {indelningsverket), a systematic method of taxing the peasants was introduced—each homestead {hemman) was subjected to a uniform tax, or annual rent {jordräntan). In the rents journal, each homestead was listed individually, together with the name of the peasant, the size of the homestead expressed in mantal, and the expected income to be derived by the crown from the homestead expressed as a sum of money. There was even a more precise calculation of the nature and amount of the produce in which the rents were to be paid.^“® With the help of the rents journal, therefore, it was possible to exercise effective ZA (no. 416, section 4: 3), 560. ZA (no. 416, section 4: 2), 560. L. M. Bääth & Arne Munthe, Kungliga statskontoret 1680—1930 (Stockholm, 1930), 31. In May 1688 the statskontoret wrote to the kammarkollegium that “on April 20, 1686, we were able to notify the royal kammarkollegium that whereas His Royal Majesty, in connection with the drawning up of that year’s budget and disposition, graciously resolving that all the proposals concerning the rents and revenues of the crown which were sent in from the provinces and upon which the disposition was based, should, when their excellencies the royal councillors and the president ... so request, be delivered to the royal kammarkollegium so that, when deliberation on the extraction and improvement of the rents and revenues of the crown is undertaken, their excellencies the royal councillors and the president may have at hand the same proposal concerning the rents that are sent in from the provinces when the budget is prepared, as well as the summary accounts that are prepared and sent out after each year; we hereby notify the royal councillors and the president . . . that all these things are now available and shall ... be communicated to the royal kammarkollegium.'’’ Statskontoret to kammarkollegium. May 9, 1688, RA, Statskontorets arkiv (registraturet). See above, p. 161; Monica Wernstedt, Fastighetsrättens historia (Stockholm, 1975), 68—69; Sam Hedar, “Jordebok och fastighetregistrering. En kortfattad översikt,” Meddelanden från Svenska Riksarkivet 1967—1969 (Stockholm, 1971), 72—75. WiRSELL, 69—70; Ämark, 45—46. 104 {jordebok).105 103 104 105 106
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