TheGeneral Accounting Directorate in Vienna appoints "the wholesaler of the kk Bohemian provincial state accounting Franz Handschke [...] as accounting official of the kk Bohemian provincial state accounting with an annual salary of 600 guilders."

Franz Handschke is 1845-51 as an accounting officer in the kk Bohemian provincial state accounting in Prague verifiable.

DatedVienna, 3. January 1838.

Signed by the President of the General Accounting Directorate in Vienna, Anton Baron von Baldacci (1762-1841), and by the Vice President Michael Freiherr von Neustadter.

Format: 35.5 x 22.7 cm.

On strong stamp paper.

Condition: document folded; paper stained. BiPlease also note the pictures!

Internal Note: EVRS 2102-8

About Anton von Baldacci (source: wikipedia):

Baron Anton Maximilian Dominik von Baldacci (* 1762 in Vienna; † 9. July 1841 ibid) was an Austrian statesman.

Origin: He comes from a Corsican family that emigrated from Corsica to Hungary during the Corsican struggle for freedom against Genoa. His father Josef von Baldacci served there as a sergeant in the Austrian army. His brother Josef also died in 1808 as a sergeant.

Life: Baldacci was educated in the Theresian Knight Academy. He went into civil service and came to the Hungarian Court Chamber. There he drew attention to his talent and was transferred to the Galician court chancellery. It was used for important political broadcasts. In this way he found an opportunity to get to know Galicia and to have a positive effect in this country. In 1803 he became the youngest-ranking Hofrat in the Department of the Interior.

The Third Coalition War put a stop to his organizational plans, but instead allowed him to work in other quarters, which resulted in his proverbial hatred of Napoleon developing. After the Battle of Austerlitz and Austria's defeat, the monarchy was in grave danger. New means and forces were sought and Emperor Franz found the man of his idea in Baldacci. In 1807 he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of St. Stephen.

During the peace period up to 1809 he was able to undertake numerous domestic reforms. He reorganized the education system, the state budget, and national defense. The awarding of the Order of St. Stephen and the consequent elevation to the status of baron fell at this time. In the fifth coalition war he was at the side of the emperor in the army camp. However, the monarch soon found it better to return him to a peaceful sphere of activity. He appointed him Vice-Chancellor of the combined Court Chancellery and in 1811 President of the General Accounts Directorate. With the beginning of the wars of liberation in 1812, he was given a new task: the emperor entrusted him with feeding the army. For this he received the Civil Cross of Honor in 1815.

After the peace he returned to his post and remained President of the General Accounts Board until he was retired in 1839 with the character of Minister of State. Baldacci had served the Emperor through the most difficult times for nearly 60 years. He was zealous as a civil servant and at the same time a humane superior. He is portrayed as unselfish, mild and cheerful. When he proposed to the Emperor the collection of statistical notes on the monarchy, he conscientiously named the real originator of this plan, one of his subordinates and collaborators, to whose merits he drew attention at every opportunity.

He died unmarried on September 9th. July 1841 in Vienna.