History
Together with the State Council and the formed governments it exercised a limited administrative powers, mainly in education and justice areas. On November 14 of the same year it passed all authority to Józef Piłsudski, from November 22 the newly appointed Supreme Head of the State (Naczelnik Państwa).
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