V. I. Lenin

Addendum to the Draft Decree on The Registration of Shares, Bonds and Other Interest-Bearing Securities {1}

The ban on the alienation of shares as set forth in the law
of 29.XII.1917 shall remain in force pending the promulgation of a law
introducing a permissive system for the alienation of shares. Only
shareholders who have properly and timely registered their shares shall be
entitled to receive compensation in the event of the enterprises being
nationalised, the amount and conditions of such compensation to be
determined by the law on nationalisation.

Similarly, only such shareholders shall be entitled to receive
dividends when payment of same, suspended by the law of 29.XII.1917, will
be permitted.

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Notes:
{1}
This document was incorporated in the Decree on the Registration of
Shares, Bonds and Other Interest-Bearing Securities, the draft of which was
edited, supplemented and supplied with a heading by Lenin and endorsed
after discussion by the C.P.C. on April 18; it was published on April 20 in
Izvestia No. 78 (see Decrees of the Soviet Government, Vol. II,
Moscow, 1959, pp. 130-38).