August 3, 1918

1) Make prints of the new seal and distribute one to each People's Commissar under their signature*.

2) Order such seals (in a smaller size) for all Soviet institutions or bring it to the Small Council for the combination of practical steps (perhaps it would be possible to work out a common type of a small size seal with inscriptions of separate Commissariats).

Lenin

*In a letter to Clara Zetkin of July 26, 1918, V. I. Lenin wrote: "I have just been brought a new state seal. Here is the imprint. The inscription says: Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. Proletarians of all countries, unite!" (Lenin Collection XXI, p. 249).*