The convocation of the commission is entrusted to Comrade Bogolepov.

The same commission is instructed: First, to give particular consideration to the question of forms of reporting; Second, to demand precise written acts bearing the signatures of all interested parties, certifying the participation of these parties in the allocation of funds and in the conduct of economic operations of various departments of the Supreme Council of the National Economy.

In addition, demand from these directing persons that they present within the nearest time the corresponding documents from all institutions and persons subordinate to them, through whose agency the expenditure of sums by the Supreme Council of the National Economy is effected.

The Council of People's Commissars draws to the attention of the Supreme Council of the National Economy and especially to the Fuel Department the extreme irregularity of its conduct of affairs.

* The manuscript breaks off here. Ed.

ADDITIONS TO THE DRAFT DECREE

ON THE PROCEDURE FOR DISPATCHING

COMMISSARS TO THE PROVINCES

Written March 26, 1918

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXI

Printed from the manuscript