1,101 for trade (49.3 per cent), 265 for industrial enterprise (11.9 per cent), and
866 for craft (38.8 per cent).
The duties of the Patent Section included receiving applications (345),
including 307 free of charge; there were 654 interventions with the Municipal
Board with regard to the industry and tax cards, including 431 free of charge.
Throughout the year, there were 354 interventions with different authorities
regarding various matters, for example, stall vendors, closed shops, traders
aggrieved due to requisitions of merchandise, trade hours, shop inspections,
etc., of which 85 per cent were free of charge.
The fee for registration cards amounted to 20, 25, 30, 120, 250 zlotys,⁴⁸¹
and after their replacement with industrial activity and tax cards, the fees
were 40, 50, 60, 240, 500 and 600 zlotys. Except for regular fees, the department
charged additional fees depending on the financial situation of the
applicant.
The sums obtained in that way were divided in the ratio of 4:4:2 between
the Social Welfare, the Jewish Hospital and the Aid to Refugees,⁴⁸² and handling
fees were charged when the registration cards were replaced with the
industrial activity and tax ones. Less wealthy applicants paid the amount due
in instalments. [2] Throughout the year, the Patent Section provided 7,100
pieces of legal advice, with the largest number of 3,000 pieces of advice offered
in December.
List of purchased registration cards and industrial activity and tax
cards:⁴⁸³
Pharmacies 4
Insurance agents 4
Ink – production 1
Libraries 5
Lingerie making 42
Bronzing workshop 1
481 In the full copy of “Second Yearbook”, the sum is 200 instead of 250 zlotys.
482 Care for refugees was entirely a responsibility of the Committee to Help the Resettled and Refugees, which searched for quarters (“asylums”) and furnished them. See AŻIH, Judenrat in Częstochowa, 213/3, p. 406.
483 Names of businesses are in alphabetical order in Polish.
