Office system of the civilian-military disciplinary commissions in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1789-1792)

Abstract

The civilian-military disciplinary commissions functioned in districts during last years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1789-1792). Commissions dealt with the military supply, maintaining the public order, control over measures and scales, social welfare and a parish education. They introduced a new office system then called “Action files” which used to work at some agencies of Polish state. Its generalization was possible thanks to the special instruction published in 1790. That system was more up-to-date than a heavy volume inscription, because it predicted the registration of all white-collar activities, gaining casual documents in folders, making all reports in table formand all documents in blank form.