Guide to the materials for American history in Swiss and Austrian archives, (Carnegie institution of Washington. Publication no. 220. Papers of the Dept. of historical research. J. F. Jameson, editor)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...of parchments, chiefly ecclesiastical, as being useful for the administration of the land, and at Bern they were classified, in some cases copied into record books, and listed in inventories of various sorts--Inventaires Blanc, Rouge, and Vert, large parts of which have recently been consolidated into the Inventaire Bleu. In 1798 the short-lived Republique Lemanique claimed from Bern the archives relating to the Pays de Vaud. At various times from that date to 1843 the Bernese government sent to Lausanne some 50,000 parchments relating to Vaud, and also several thousand volumes covering the Bernese administration of Vaud in the period from 1536 to 1798. These the government of the canton of Vaud installed in the belfry of the cathedral at Lausanne. In 1829 it appointed a cantonal archivist, Antoine Baron, who served from 1829 to 1861; his successor, Aymon Crousaz, from 1861 to 1909. Besides the documents thus transferred from Bern, the cantonal archives embrace the minutes of the notaries of the Pays de Vaud from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, the cadastres and accompanying blanks from the seventeenth century down, the registers of etat civil from about 1560 to 1821, and the governmental papers of the period since 1798, in so far as these have been turned over by the executive departments to the cantonal archives. Such deposits have been made at various times by the seven executive ministers, but it may in general be said that the latter retain the papers which have arisen in their business since about 1870. At first the cantonal archives were subject to the Commissaire General, after 1837 to the Chancery of State; now they are subordinate to the Department of Public Instruction. Their administration is governed by a law of...