2) Commission forgeries of them.

3) Commission the Colleges at the People's Commissariat of Enlightenment to prepare drawings (of all denominations).

4) Entrust Popovitsky with drawing up a calculation:

(a) how many such credit notes will be able to be produced per month under normal conditions, i.e., normal distribution of denominations (a1) on Orlov machines, (a2) on ordinary flat-bed machines, (a3) high-denomination notes (i.e., notes of high value) on Orlov machines, low-denomination ones on ordinary flat-bed machines?

(b) what is the cost of the new credit notes compared with the old ones?

(c) exactly when will it be possible to manufacture the plates (i.e., how many days after approval of the design) and within what timeframe can production of the new credit notes begin?

(d) will the new method require new materials and auxiliary substances, etc., compared with the old one?

How much will the blank form cost (for all official papers of the Soviet authorities)?

Written in the first half of

July 1918

First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from manuscripts