373 tioned earlier, Bruce declined the tsar’s request that he supervise the collegial reformin its entirety.^'* A preliminary budget for the berg-kollegiia was approved in 1718 and called for a staff of twenty-one functionaries, of whom ten were to be Russians and eleven were to be foreigners. Contrary to the situation in the kommerts-kollegiia, it is impossible to discern any real agreement between the personnel budgets of the Swedish bergskollegium and the Russian berg-kollegiia. Among other things, it is clear that several positions in the Swedish collegewere not included in the budget for the berg-kollegiia, and the number of positions in the two colleges differed. Both of these things can be seen in the following comparison: Swedish bergskollegium President Vice president 2 Tlcrg-councillors 4 Assessors 1 Secretary 1 Prosecutor I Scrivener for the prosecutor 1 Accountant 1 Surveyor of mines 1 Junior porter 2 Notaries 1 Actuary 2 Auscultators 1 Controller of coins 1 Assayer 1 Assistant secretary 2 Copyists 1 Scrivener 1 Surveyor 1 Copyist 1 Porter 1 Office boy Total of 29 According to a report on its personnel which the berg-kollegiia, together with all the other colleges, submitted to the Senate in 1720, the bergkollegiia had a staff of twenty-nine at that time, among which were a surprising number of foreigners. Aside from the president of the college, Jacob Bruce, four of the five members of the college board—two Germans, an Englishman, and a Swiss—were foreigners. The Russian member was the ^erg-councillor and chief commissary of artillery, Aleksei Kirillovich Sec above, p. 90 note 204. RA, Statskontorets arkiv. Huvudarkivet, Personalstat 1715. TsGADA, f. 248 delo 42 1. 293. Russian berg-kollegiia•’’* President Vice president (foreigner) 3 Assessors (Russians) 3 Assessors (foreigners) 3 Commissaries (Russians) 3 Commissaries (foreigners) 1 Secretary (foreigner) 1 Notary (Russian) 1 Registrar (foreigner) 1 Assistant secretary (Russian) 1 Assistant secretary (foreigner) 1 Copyist (foreigner) 1 Copyist (Russian) Total of 21 (11 foreigners, 10 Russians)
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