),and all titles (Prince, Count and others), and all
denominations of civil rank (Privy State Councillor, and others), are
abolished, and there is established the general denomination of
Citizen of the Russian Republic.
3. The property and institutions of the classes of nobility are
transferred to the corresponding autonomous Zemstvos.
4. The property of merchant and bourgeois organisations is
transferred immediately to the Municipal Self-Governments.
5. All class institutions of any sort, with their property, their
rules of procedure, and their archives, are transferred to the
administration of the Municipalities and Zemstvos.
6. All articles of existing laws applying to these matters are
herewith repealed.
7. The present decree becomes effective on the day it is published
and applied by the Soviets of Workers', Soldiers', and Peasants'
Deputies.
The present decree has been confirmed by the _Tsay-ee-kah_ at the
meeting of November 23d, 1917, and signed by:
_President of the Tsay-ee-kah,_
SVERDLOV.
_President of the Council of People's Commissars,_
VL. ULIANOV (LENIN).
_Executive of the Council of People's Commissars,_
V. BONCH-BRUEVITCH.
_Secretary of the Council,_
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