Urban Administration in the Principality of Moldavia after the Adoption of the Organic Statute: Members of Municipal Councils (1834)
Urban Administration in the Principality of Moldavia after the Adoption of the Organic Statute: Members of Municipal Councils (1834)

Summary/Abstract: The Organic Statute of Moldavia (Regulamentul Organic al Moldovei) entered into force in 1832. Its adoption brought about important changes in the institutions of the Principality, the urban administration included. Municipalities would be governed by elected councils, under the close supervision of the Interior Ministry. This article presents the members of these town councils in 1834. Its main source is the general employee registry of the Moldavian Interior Ministry, kept at the National Archives of Romania – Iași County Directorate. This registry contains 243 service records of the bureaucrats in the Interior Ministry, comprising data regarding their age, origin, education, wealth, marital and social status, as well as past public assignments. This kind of information – along with data found in other archival and edited sources – was the basis for the reconstitution of the Moldavian municipal councillors’ collective biography, including: their birth places; their average age (in 1834 and upon joining the service); the foreign languages they spoke; their family and property; their experience and continuity in the public office. These findings were compared to the general situation of the officials in the Moldavian Interior Ministry.

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