# Communal Doings

- URL: https://syn.by/en/history/archives/communal-doings/
- Published: 1924-05-25T18:10:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-22T21:00:25+00:00
- Section: Archives
- Language: en
- BE edition: https://syn.by/historya/arkhivy/hminnyja-paradachki.md
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/istoriya/arhivy/gminnyye-poryadochki.md

> In Prazaroki the gmina is run by a clerk who is a military settler and a few gentlemen, and 795 million are missing from the treasury. The blame is put on the new deputy, but nobody believes it.

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There is surely no better gmina than ours in all of Poland. It is run by the poor Mr. Laveika, who has only 90 dessiatines of land, and the clerk Kuchеўski, a military settler. They are helped by four assistants to the clerk, the deputy village head and some lavnik (juror). We pay these gentlemen more than 2600000000 marks a month, not counting the watchman, the school, the office, medical services and other levies and taxes. Well, and is there still a gmina council, you may ask? Yes, there is, and it is run by the still poorer Mr. Dubashynski, who has 900 dessiatines of land, and Mr. Yatsyna Piotra, who has 80 dessiatines. These two gentlemen do whatever they like with the Council.

And so this honest little family ran the gmina for more than one year, drove people out with carts for hauling duty, and levied and imposed taxes as they saw fit and wished. But the jug goes to the water only so long. Somewhere, someone whispered to the right person about the bad state of the gmina treasury. An inspector came, chatted with our officials, drank a glass of vodka with a bite to eat and, finding that the money was in order on paper, left. But somehow suddenly on 13 April of this year our village head noticed that 795 million Polish marks were missing from the treasury. They began to look for the thief. But where, it was as if the wind had blown him away. What was to be done? The chief guardian of our money, Mr. Laveika, laid the blame on his deputy Karneza, who, as bad luck would have it, had been elected only recently, so the people simply cannot believe it. Rumors are going around that the village head and his company greatly dislike that clean water may pour into their swamp in the person of citizen Karneza, who may bring to the surface of this swamp not only 795 million Polish marks, but perhaps something else besides.  

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