OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS

18. I. 1919

I hereby order you to report to me immediately on all complaints received by the Office of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars against all government institutions and persons, whereby complaints received in written form must be reported to me within twenty-four hours, oral complaints within forty-eight hours.

A special registry of such complaints must be established in the Office, and the head of the Office secretariat is to be charged with careful supervision over the execution of my resolutions on these complaints.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

First printed in 1945 in Lenin Collection XXXV

Printed from the typewritten text signed by V. I. Lenin