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type: Mandate
authorizes: ch-005495
general description: - Evaluating, taking over and indexing the records of the offices required to offer records that are permanently worthy of preservation - Preservation of the holdings and guaranteeing their usability - Promoting and facilitating research - Advising and supporting the public bodies in questions of record keeping and record storage - Professional supervision of the public archives in the canton - Taking over documents of private origin where this is important for supplementing the state holdings and the history of Zurich