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RUSSIAN FINANCE.
PROCLAMATION BY THE EMPEROR.

We, Nicholas 1., by the grace of God Emperor and
Autocrat of all the Bussias, &c. &c. &e.
In order to facilitate the operations of establishments
connected with the public credit, and to increase at the
same time the amount of the circulating medium ; and
considering it advisable to create a new description of
paper with a complete guarantee for its value ; in con-
formity with the advice of the Council of the Empire we
ordain as follows:

1. In six weeks from the promulgation of the present
decree the treasuries of the Foundling Hospital, and of
the Imperial Loan Bank, shall be authorised to advance
money, on the security of real property, in credit-notes,
of the value of 50 silver roubles. These notes shall be
of a particular form, of which the Department of Fi-
nance shall present copies to the Directing Senate, the
Ministerial offices, the. superior branches of administra-
tion, and the Chambers of Finance. These copies shall
also be posted in all the commercial exchanges.
2. These credit-notes shall amount to 30 millions of
silver roubles, of which 15 millions shall be on account
of the treasury of the Foundling Hospital at Moscow ;
eight millions on account of that at St. Petersburgh; and
seven millions on account of the Loan Bank.

3. These notes shall be guaranteed by the entire ca-
pital and funds of the credit establishments of the em-
pire; and further by their being changeable on demand
for specie, agreeably with the arrangements in Article 5
of the present manifesto.
4. Throughout the empire these notes shall be current
equivalently with specie.
5. The exchange of those notes for specie or assignats
shall take place, at the option of the holders, at the trea-
sury of either of the Foundling Hospitals, or of the
Loan Bank, without limitation of the amount presented,
and without reference.to the particular establishment that
may have issued them. In order to insure punctuality in
this exchange, the various treasuries shall, whenever they
issue notes, deposit in a special fund for the express pur-
pose a sum of specie equal to one-sixth part at least of
the value of the issue.
G. With a view still further to facilitate the exchange
of these notes, all the treasuries of districts shall bo held
bound to exchange them to the amount of 100 silver
roubles to. each person who may present that, or a
larger amount. •
7. The fundS for exchange, and the quantity of
notes, whether issued or not, are placed under
the control of the Council of Credit establishments.
In addition to the monthly revision that the
treasuries of the Foundling Hospitals and the Bank
are bound to make, there shall be twice a year a
special revision, viz., at the St. Petersburgh Found-
ling
.Hospital and Loan Bank, directly by the Coun-
cil of Credit establishments ; and at the Foundling
Hospital of Moscow by three Senators, named by the
Minister of Justice, in conjunction with the marechal of
the nobility of the province and the mayor of the city.
'The accounts audited by them, and their remarks, shall
also be submitted to the said Council. _ _

8. The exchange of old notes, unfit for further circula-
tion, for new ones, shall take place in conformity with
the rules established on this subject in reference to the
other portions of the circulating medium.
9. The credit notes mad• be sent by post in the same
manner as assignats and Treasury bills ; that is to say,
by paying the insurance and the amount of the postage.
10. The exportation and importation of credit notes is
prohibited by the Custom House regulations now in
force with respect to Treasury bills.
11. The forgery of credit-notes shall be punished by
the penalties awarded by the law against the forgers of
all other State documents.

The droper authorities shall hereafter receive from us
more detailed regulations for the guidance of the Coun-
cils of the Foundling Hospitals and of the Loan Bank,
both as to the course to be pursued in reference to this
operation and to the adjustment among themselves of the
accounts of the exchange funds.
Given at Peterhoff, the Ist of July, in the year of
Grace, 1841, and of our reign the 16th.
(Signed) NICHOLAS.

Extract from the regulations approved on the 2d July,
1841, by his Majesty the Emperor, for the guidance of
the Councils of the Foundling Hospitals and of the Loan
Bank in what relates to the issue of credit notes, the ex-
change of them, and the adjustment of accounts among
these various establishments

" 1. The proportion of credit-notes, assigned by the
Imperial manifesto of the Ist of July in this year to the
treasuries of the Foundling Hospitals of St. Petersburgh
and,goseow, and the Loan Bank respectively, shall form,
in the case of each of those establishments, a special capi-
tal, of which a particular account shall be kept.
" 2. In making loans, these establishments shall inform
the borrowers that they must take credit-notes in part
of the sum to be advanced.

" 3. Four per cent. of the interest due on such loans,
with the exception of the amount, proportioned as an ex-
change fund to the sum deposited (in pursuance of Art.
5 of the manifesto), shall be added to the capital, and
not be otherwise appropriated than to increase the prin-
cipal ; the remaining one per cent. of the interest is to'
remain at the disposal of the credit establishments.
Eventually, if a necessity should appear for so doing, the
portion of the interest appropriated to the increase of
the capital may be employed in the gradual extinction
cf the credit-notes. _

" 4. When there shall be presented at the treasury of
either of the Foundling Hospitals or of the Loan Bank,
to be exchanged for specie, an amount of credit-notes
larger than that of the funds set apart for that purpose,
the surplus required for effecting the exchange shall be
taken from the other funds of the establishment.
" 5. The credit-notes received by the aforesaid trea-
suries, either as repayment of loans, or in exchange for