ITS DEPARTMENTS AND COMMISSARS
[6 March 1918]
Penza, Soviet of People's Commissars and Commissars
To strict execution we propose to the Soviet, all its departments
and commissars, to render every kind of active assistance to the Expedition for the Procurement of State Papers, especially in accommodating workers arriving from Petrograd and supplying them with provisions and everything necessary. You are proposed to immediately issue a directive to all hospitals and infirmaries in Penza to cease the admission of the wounded, sick, and to notify the appropriate authorities of this, as the infirmaries in Penza are intended for institutions evacuated from Petrograd.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)