[p. 565]
|565| It emerges from them, namely, that for every official district there is a town or district scribe (for the larger towns, that is, also a special town scribe, and then for the rest of the district, which is called the office, again a special district scribe), who has the monopoly of having everything judicial and official in this district that is to be reckoned and written, written. – That the chief district offices, namely the offices of justice and police, the cameral administrations, the forestry offices, likewise had scribes as assistants is a circumstance necessary for their business in other countries too. In this regard only this can be regarded as peculiar to Württemberg, that among such assistants there are none taken from the class of studied jurists, cameralists or foresters, but that all assistants form themselves only through routine and are not destined themselves one day to hold an office in whose business they work. The forestry offices have long since been put into the possession of the nobility; the bourgeois assistant is thereby already excluded from the capacity of aspiring to such an office. With regard to studied jurists, it is not the case that it is made a condition for them, in order to be appointed to an office, to acquire the practical skill for it after completing their university studies by a practice of one or several years with an official, which preparation in other states is a legal requirement. In the opinion it is repeatedly said that studied jurists think themselves far too distinguished to enter as assistants with an official.
A petition of the town of Urach, submitted to the assembly of estates, contains the complaint that the district of the chief district office formerly seated there – an excessively large one – has been reduced; among other things the fine thought is expressed that the former many smaller chief district offices had the utility of serving the studied jurists, inexperienced in business,
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