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APPENDIX XXIX

(Note [*] of the Chapter XVI)

As this book goes to press, the newspapers report the discovery of scandals which have forced Mr. Emerich Latkóczy to resign his position of Vice-President of the Administrative Court of Appeal — one of the highest legal posts in Hungary. Latkóczy accepted a present of 60,000 crowns from a chemist of the name of Korbuly, as the price of obtaining for him a chemist's licence on the Baross­tér (the square outside the chief railway terminus in Budapest).

An interesting sidelight is thrown upon the prevailing system of "protection" in the provinces by one of Korbuly's statements (see Pester Lloyd, October 20, 1908). His first intention, he said, had been to apply for a chemist's licence in Miskokz, but on learn­ing that no one save a protege of the High Sheriff (the name was openly given in the newspaper report !) had any prospect, he attempted to procure a licence in the capital.