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Mennonite-Related Documents from the Zaporozhe Regional State Archive Fonds
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Berdiansk Uezd Land Survey Office

Office created in 1884 by Tavria Gubemiia Zemstvo Assembly. Its task was systematically to gather and process information re local agriculture and industry, trade, public education and public health. The only documents preserved are from the All-Russian agricultural and land census of 1917.

Documents on land possession of land-owners from the Mennonite villages of Halbstadt Volost, dated 1873 and 1881 re: land owners and renters, previous owners; size of propenies; land use; boundary-related questions; individual officials of village communities, with signatures.

Information re decisions of village assemblies re mongages, assignment of Mennonites to villages, migratlon.

Map of property of W.W. Wiens of Village Schoenau.

Khonitsa Volost Administration

The district administration offices were created in 1797 as local organs of the Ministry of State Domains. They consisted of a local head administrator and two assistants: one responsible for law enforcement and one for economic-related activites. The Archive of the Zaporozhe Region possesses no documents of the Khonitsa district admjnistration before 1861, with one exception, a German-language account book for the period January 1, 1851-January 31, 1852.

List of village resident-property owners of village Khonitsa enfranchised to vote in village assembly and a certificate of the Khonitsa district administration for 1904-1909. Other documents of this fond were removed by German occupation authorities in October 1943, and transported to Germany. Their whereabouts are unknown.

Khortitsa Volost Court

Two journals record verdicts of volost court for periods September 15, 1899 to January 1, 1900, and January 1 to December 28, 1900.

Documents re complaints to volost court, statements of complainants, witnesses, accused, and record of verdict.

The most common civil suits are of workers against factories for tardiness in wage payments, of creditors against debtors for failure to make timely payments, and of creditors for payment of debts against estates of deceased members of the community.

Common criminal cases involve the consumption of alcohol, violations of sanitary regulations in the slaughter of cattle, misbehavior and petty theft. Information re members of court.

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