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             THE REIGN OF SOVEREIGN EMPEROR ALEXANDER I
1821  yr.
104. - November 29. The Highest approved Polozheniye [provision] of the 
Committee of Ministers, announced to the Senate by the Minister of Finance. 
On the prohibition for Jews to keep pubs in the Chernigov Gubernia.
The Committee of the Мessrs. Ministers in its Journal on the 1
st
 of November of this year,
among other things, ruled the following: in accordance with the provisions of 1804 *) concerning
Jews and the decree of the March 14
th
 of 1811, the Military Governor reported about the Jews,
who were secondhand dealers –that they contain in grievous bondage [servitude] the state
peasants and the Cossacks; thus [it was ordered to] make [Jewish population] census in all
powiats, denoting, who and where any of them is living and for what reason, and allow to remain
there only those, who will turn up to be living in the villages engaged in state-owned wine-trade,
in a legal manner, by the decree of March 14
th
 1811, or by other acts, regulated [permitted] by
laws, limiting their number to one family per each potatory-house, in lease according to the
registries of the Treasury Chamber, and all the others [Jews], no matter under what pretexts they
might be residing in state settlements, as they did it in violation of the Highest approved
provision/regulation about the Jews, and became essentially harmful for the commoners, should
be sent without delay to those towns and městečko-s, to which each of them should be
registered/assigned by revision. Thereto, at the end of the current four-year period, a renewal for
them of such revenue leasing [Ótkup] of pubs/taverns and further stay in the Chernigov
Governorate should be completely prohibited.
This Provision of the Committee of the Мessrs. Ministers is Highly approved on
November 29
th
; I [Minister of Finance] consider it my duty to bring it to attention of the
Governing Senate for the proper disposal of its management, in the case of the coming biddings
for liquors revenue leasing of potatories from the year of 1823 (P.P.S.Z, vol. XXXVII, No.
28,821).
*) See No. 69, p. 53.
Translation by Anastasia Savenko­Moore and Rick Moore, Eugene OR.
Funded by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture NYC, http://mfjc.org/.