lished institution of supply delegates. Delegates, who were many, and each of whom was permanently assigned to certain buildings, personally distributed ration cards among the tenants based on presented documents. At the end of 1940, the system was once again changed. Honourary supply delegates were replaced by a special small group of inspectors, who (aside from their salary) received a commission for each card they managed to eliminate. While previously inspections of flats were rare, carried out only in special cases and only at specific premises, now they are held on an every-day basis. An inspector enters the building without prior notice, when the registration clerk is absent, and compares the status of tenants in all flats in the building with the list. He removes fictitious names and, without notifying the clerk, submits a report. Should the clerk include the names eliminated by the inspector in a subsequent list, he will be accused of abuse. Discovery of dead vouchers is punishable by a fine of 100 to 300 zlotys, depending on [4] the clerk’s protekcja. These rules are not strictly followed, however. For example, the described clerk, Naj, was fined 300 zlotys. Through his protekcja, he managed to get it reduced to 100 zlotys in 4 installments of 25 zlotys. As a result, he paid only two installments. He was not required to pay the rest. The latest news says that reports of abuses are to be sent to Rozenstath535 himself, who will them submit them to the Registration Clerks Committee; the committee will examine the case and find extenuating circumstances. Disciplinary cases of this kind go on for a long time and usually end in a cover-up. Only in the case of exceptional fraud is more severe punishment meted out; for example, a clerk named Dancygier who in only one building on Pańska Street had over a hundred dead vouchers, was removed from his position. Another clerk, who reported that he had lost his vouchers while he had actually sold them, went to prison on Gęsia Street.
Currently the collection of ration cards is associated with serious difficulties. In the past, if someone came to a building before the 15th day of the month, he could be put on the new list before being removed from the previous one. Now such schemes are no longer possible because 1) the registration survey eliminated people registered in two places at the same time; 2) the registration clerk in the building which the tenant left is obliged to
