 The Ruling Council was established by recommendation of the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs Czartoryski and on the proposal of some of the dukes (Jakov and Matija Nenadović, Milan Obrenović, Sima Marković).The idea of Boža Grujović, the first secretary, and Matija Nenadović, the first president, was that the council would become the government of the new Serbian state.It had to organize and supervise the administration, the economy, army supply, order and peace, judiciary, and foreign policy.