Urbariul Domeniului Blaj din 1747. Venituri ale Episcopiei și personalului administrativ
The Conscription of Blaj from 1747. Revenues of the Diocese and Administrative Staff

Summary/Abstract: For the Greek Catholic Diocese of Făgăraș, the Blaj domain was the main source of income. The conscription from 1747 was made on the occasion of the takeover by the administration of the monastery of half of the Blaj domain. In addition to the actual description of the domain, the conscription presents data on the natural resources of the domain and its revenues. Being also the episcopal residence, the place where both the bishop and the vicar lived, the attention to detail was very high. From an economic and administrative point of view, the situation of the field was presented in detail. Starting from the revenues resulting from natural resources, which consist in the sale of cereals and animal products, the economical dynamics were very versatile. The list goes on with those revenues resulting from taxes that were represented by land taxes, property leases and annual donations (decimate and domain census). Regarding the administration of the domain, the situation is presented of each family from Blaj and the neighborhood villages through personal income. The most important thing in the analysis of this point is the administration of the field and the administrative staff: not only the employees, but also of the field, the function performed by each member of the staff. An important thing in the payment of these employees was the fact that most of the employees were paid by products available to the domain. This conscription explicitly and uniquely presents the operation of an 18th century domain with the available resources and the resulting revenues, as well as the administration of a domain.

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