The article deals with the professional record management - the methods of filing by the provincial and local administrational and autonomous agencies in the second half of the 19th century. The period is characterised by record filing under a registration plan. They represented a particular classification system, where the files were registered by their contents. The classification system i.e. the registration plan included different number of main content groups, which are called registration files. These registration files were divided into sub-groups, which contained the records with the same contents. The records were thus filed and arranged already in the registration office by a certain plan, by their contents. These records were then arranged by years, and were farther kept under specific numbers. The method was used by certain administrational and autonomous agencies already earlier, but was established and formulated after 1850.