 He charged the "Kondukteur" (building supervisor) Heinrich Niedhart with this task.The Electoral Saxon forestry superintendents were instructed to provide the wood, and the administrators of the electoral Saxon districts were to ensure that the posts were erected.Furthermore, before 1700 wooden fingerposts withs distance markings (so-called "Arm(en)säulen" or "arm columns") were commonplace on the roads of Saxony.