315 2 notaries for written contracts and documents concerning serfs or the determination of the right to the ownership of land {krepost’) 3 translators 1 notary 4 scriveners of both peoples for making clean copies of translations 2 prosecutors 3 prosecutors, for there is much business in this college 2 chancellery servants {prikaznye sluzhiteli) 3 messengers A total of 22 Russians Together 38 persons 2 chancellery servants 3 messengers Atotal of 16 foreigners Including the president and the vice president, the college required a staff of forty persons in Matveev’s view. If one compares his proposal with von Brevern’s, one sees that it was primarily the number of foreigners that Matveev reduced; in his proposal there are only three foreign courtcillors listed, while von Brevern had listed six. In addition, one notes that Matveev included five prosecutors, a request he based on the fact that the iustits-kollegiia was to include in its organization, as did the SveaCourt of Appeals, the prosecutors office which was to prosecute those criminal cases dealt with directly by the college, as well as to supervise the lower courts and prosecute judges suspected of misconduct in the exercise of their official duties.’*^ While the available sources provide no information about the Senate’s discussion of Matveev’s proposal, the budget for the iustitskollegiia drawn up in 1720 does provide an idea of how the staff developed during the first years of the college’s existence. According to that budget, the iustits-kollegiia had, in 1720, a staff of eighty and was demanding an increase of forty-five positions.^" By way of comparison, the Svea Court of Appeals had a staff of forty in 1715.^** As was the case with the other Russian colleges and with the Swedish colleges upon which they were patterned, the officials of the iustits-kollegiia were divided into two categories, namely the members (chleny) of the college board, or decision-making body within the college, and the so-called college servants {kollezhskie sluzhiteli), or functionaries. There PSZ, V, no. 3,280, p. 612 (.'ll! ukaz subordinating the prosecutors office to the iustits-kollegiia, January 14, 1719). Sec also G. N. Anpilogov, “Fiskalitct pri Petre,” Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Istoriko-filologicheskaia seriia, no. 2 (1956), 66; L. A. Steshenko, “Fiskaly i prokurory v sisteme gosudarstvennykli organov Rossii pervoi chetverti XVIII v.,” Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seriia Pravo, no. 2 (1966), 54. TsGADA, f. 248 delo 606 11. 204—205. ■** RA, Statskontorets arkiv, Fiuvudarkivet, 1715 års personalstat.
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