210 of the century it had achieved such a prominent position within the system of fiscal administration that it was listed under a separate subtitle as the kammarrevisionenIn 1653, a draft project for a treasury ordinance argued that there should be “an Audits Office{Revisions Cammar) in which there should be a Royal Treasury Commissioner and two Assessors” whose task it should be “to supervise and audit all the Crown Accounts and books, whatever name they might have. During the period the kammarrevisionen was part of the kammarkollegium, however, the auditing it did was not marked by the sort of effectiveness and care required if the current method of fiscal administration was to function as intended. As the work performed by the kammarkollegium grew in volume, the activities of the kammarrevisionen were among the things that suffered, since the process of auditing fell further and further behind as the number of audits to be conducted grew. A natural result of this development was that the kammarrevisionen was removed from the kammarkollegium and set up as a separate college in 1695. The following year it was given its own president,”**^ but a personal connection with the kammarkollegium was preserved, since the president of the kammarrevisionen was also to serve as a member of that college. This change in organization was defended on the grounds that “the annual auditing of the accounts of the royal government {Kungl. Ma]:t) and the crown” would thereby “be carried out and continued so much more promptly and precisely. It was the task of the kammarkollegium to see to it that all the accounts from the local and central organs engaged in the administration of state funds were presented in time. A preliminary check of the accounts was conducted in the kammerkollegium. to see whether the balances were correct and whether the revenues covered the expenditures. When this had been done, the accounts were sent along to the kammarrevisionen at the beginning of each year for a control of the bookkeeping. kammarrevisionen was so arranged that mornings were devoted to trials concerning faulty accounting, while afternoons were spent with the actual task of auditing. ” 294 296 ” 297 Work in the 298 299 Eden (1941), 77. Arne Munthe, Studier i drottning Kristinas och reduktionens historia (Stockholm, 294 1971), 83. A. B. Carlsson, Den svenska centralförvaltningen 1527—1809. En historisk översikt (Stockholm, 1913), 95—96. Linde, 29. Relation, 23. Ibid., 22; Åmark, 75—76. 295 296 297 299 Carlsson, 95.
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