190 tioned in connection with the kamer-kollegiia, the idea was to recruit individuals who already possessed some sort of administrative experience from abroad and who could utilize their experience to train the Russian staff memebers in the requisite administrative procedures. In 1720 there were eight foreigners, mostly of German extraction, in the service of the shtats-kontor-kollegiia.--^ Some of these, including Budget Commissioner Karl Printzenstiern, were Swedish prisoners of war who had entered the the Russian service. Printzenstiern had been given a commission for five years in 1718, and other former Swedish prisoners in the college were Chief Accountant Ditlev Jochimsen from Ingria, formerly a lieutenant in a Swedish regiment. Assistant Accountant Georg Soltner, a German who had served as a Swedish regimental clerk in Livonia, and, finally, a clerk named Henrik Santen fromPrussia, a former cashier at Schlusselburg. The four other foreigners in the shtats-kontor-kollegiia were the secretary, Wilhelm Schulz, the translator, Abraham Jochemsen, the actuary, Georg Schpanaus, and the bursary bookkeeper, Lukas Willers, all of whom had previously worked in various chancelleries. It is said of Georg Schpanaus, for example, that he “left Saxony in 1707 and was in Brandenburg, Pomerania, Prussia and other places, but most of all in the Danish possessions, and he made his living on his knowledge {naukoiu svoeiu kormilsia). ” 227 The salaries for the foreign employees of the college were set according to the Swedish salary budget (“zhalovan’e polozheno inozemtsam po shvetskomu . . . tabeliu”), which meant that those employees received much higher salaries than their Russian colleagues with comparable positions. One example of this is that Budget Commissioner Karl Printzenstiern was to receive an annual sum of 1,200 rubles, corresponding to the 1,800 dsmt paid to budget commissioners in the statskontoret, while the Russian budget commissioner was to receive only 800 rubles.-"® It should be pointed out, however, that the second budget commissionership remained unfilled as of 1720.--** Responsibilities As was the case with its Swedish prototype, the shtats-kontor-kollegiia was, according to its instruktsiia, to concentrate on three main tasks, namely the drawing up of an annual state budget, the issuance of assignations or payment orders according to the budget, and the control of the bursaries. The following presentation will deal with each of these functions separately. TsGADA, f. 248 delo 606 11. 202—203. TsGADA, f. 248 dclo 654 11. 99—101v. 130, 136. --8 TsGADA, f. 248 delo 42 1. 274. TsGADA, f. 248 delo 606 1. 202v. 2.2.2.
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