MEMORANDUM TO I. V. STALIN,

ASSIGNMENT TO N. P. GORBUNOV

+==AND MARKS ON THE MEMORANDUM BY V. I. YAKHONTOV
Comrade Stalin! Please read and give a stricter order: prepare the draft in RaKrin 319.

28/II. Lenin

Comrade Gorbunov!

Send this to Stalin, and after he returns it, ensure its execution.

To the Council of People's Commissars
Regarding the question of whether private associations and enterprises are subject to the control of the People's Commissariat of Workers' and Peasants' Inspection (RKI), I consider it necessary to provide the following information:
1. Concerning cooperative associations:

According to the Regulations on the RKI and the rules on preliminary and actual inspection, which have now been abolished, the NK RKI had the right to audit both governmental and public organizations, with public organizations being understood to include cooperative organizations... The Decree of June 10, 1921, on the abolition of preliminary control over cooperatives, abolished the preliminary inspection of cooperative organizations; however, "the inspection of cooperative organizations is to be carried out by the NK RKI in the form of actual and subsequent inspection within the rights granted to the NK RKI and the established rules of inspection."