… [must] * may
[shall be nothing but] all residents—both local and migrant—of the villages,
The opening of paragraph “b” in the finally adopted text of the decree reads as follows: “To elect and to be elected to the volost and village committees of the poor.” Ed.

not [those who sell] surplus grain or other foodstuffs, not [those who run] commercial, industrial, and the like enterprises, not those who rely on either day labor or wage labor. *