Recognizing the necessity of covering the expenses of the Central Executive Committee from state funds, the Council of People’s Commissars proposes that the Chairman of the Central Executive Committee submit, in the near future, an approximate estimate of these expenses, signed by the heads of the relevant departments, and, as far as possible, set aside a sum for the free distribution of literature.

Lenin

P. S. The allocation of the requested sum is to be postponed until the submission of the said approximate estimate.

Written on December 29, 1917

(January 11, 1918)

First published in 1933
in Lenin Miscellany XXI
Printed from the manuscript