Staff office

After the highest governing body, the Senate , was formed in 1711, the formation of sectoral governing bodies — colleges that replaced the order system — began. According to the Swedish model, three colleges were established in the management of reformed public finances : the chamber-chamber was in charge of income, the staff-office-board was in charge, and the audit committee was in charge of inspections.

In December 1717, the staffs of the collegium were approved, and the president and vice-president were appointed. The first president of the board was Count IA Musin-Pushkin . The structure and procedure of office work in the college were determined by the General Regulations , and the seat of the college was St. Petersburg. The functions of the collegium passed from the order of the Big Treasury , approved in December 1718, included the allocation of certain sums to state institutions and officials through local cash registers (renters), administered by renters appointed by the provincial colleges .

In November 1723, the Shtats-kontor-collegiya from an independent governing body was transformed by the Shtats-kontoru: in 1723-1726 in the structure of the Senate, and in 1726-1730 as part of the Chambers-Collegium. But in July 1730, the state office was returned to the status of an independent board.

In the course of the local government reform carried out by Catherine II , new central government bodies and provincial institutions were established in the sphere of public finance: treasuries in St. Petersburg and Moscow, as well as provincial treasury chambers and county treasuries. They were transferred to the functions of the divisions of the States-office-collegium, which was abolished in 1780.

The supreme bodies of state power and control of Russia in the 9th-20th centuries: a Handbook / Ed. A.S. Turgaev. - SPb. : SZAGS Publishing House, 2000. - 368 p. - ISBN 5-88857-070-2 .