Complaints that You still have not given the text of the new money, hindering the preparation of samples and trials. Give it immediately, retaining the old on the question of exchange for gold (with the suspension of exchange by special decrees).

Make a Soviet inscription*.

1) Give the actual samples to the best experts.

2) Order forged copies of them.

3) Commissions at the Commissariat for Education request designs (of all bills).

4) Entrust Popovitskiy with drawing up a calculation:

(a) how many of such credit notes could be produced per month at normal, that is regular distribution of bills (a1) on Orlov machines (a2) on ordinary flat machines (a3) high value bills (that is bills of high denomination) on Orlov machines, low value on ordinary flat machines?

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

(в) when exactly will it be possible to make the plates (that is, within how many days of approval of the design) and in what time frame begin production of new credit notes?

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

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

*This note is a response to the proposal of the Commissariat of Finance: "If the old inscription is satisfactory, then it is possible to take it from any old credit note".*