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III maintainiug ana strengthening the tranquility
aud welfare of this Empire entrusted to our care
by Divine Providence: and we have recognized it
rs Of our hottest duties to take into considers
ten that might provide for extraordinary
events, Our life is in Gods hands " were the
words of our most beloved aud eyer remembered
father in his manifesto of 2Sth Of January, 1928.
Rejecting on this and considering the minority of
our heir. the Cesarawitch OF Grand Duke Nicholas
AleNandfowiteh, have decided, according to
the fundamental laws of the Empire, and with the
consent and the blessing of our dearest mother,
the Empress Alexander Feodorowna, to dccsee
and promuigate as follows: s==.z.
l, That in case We should die before our most
beloved son and heir has reached the legal age OF
majority, our most beloved brother, the Grand
Duke Constantine Njeholajewitsch is named Regent
Of the Empire and of the territories forever united
with it, the Kingdom Of Poland and the Grand
Duchy of Finland, until our son and heir has
reached the age of majority. . 49,
2. That in case it should please God, after our
DEATH to call himself our irst.born son before
he has reached the age of majority when, accord
ing to the laws of succession, next son aseends
the tlvone--our most beloved brother Nichalase-
witch is to remain Regent oil the Empire till our
next sDn is of full age.
8. That in NIL cases provided for in the first and
second point of this manifesto the guardianship
over our first.born son, as well rs over all our
other children until their majority, shall in Its full
legal power and extent belong to our dearest con
sort, the Empress Maria Alexandrowna.
While by thus decreeing and promulgating those
laws so early in our reign, we have rendered lhl-
possible any doubt as to our will and our inten-
tons with regard TO the Regency of the Empire
during the minority Of our heir to the throne. We
have at the same time, at the beginning of our
reign, given our beloved and faithful subjects
fresh proof of our respectful regard for the laws
of the country. May those laws always be as
sacredly respected by every as by ourself, and
may the welfare, the power and the happiness Of
the Empire, which God has entrusted to us, be
strengthened and increased more and more by
these principles, which are never to be shaken
Given at Garshojiselo, 2lst of May, cd Of June)
1856. ALEXANDER.
will moi take leave Of the reader of this paper
without publicly acknowledging the consistency
and perseverance with which Alexander H. has,
since tho conclusion of the peace Of Paris in 1856,
to the present time, ameliorated the system of
labor in Russia. He has perfectly understood that
an increase of agricultural productions can only
be achieved by substituting q perfect freedom Of
labor to the previous feudal practices. He also
has introduced absolute equality in all matters Of
trade, by issuing an ukase in July, 1860, placing
all foreign and native merchants on the same foot
ing-tfus erasing with one dash of the pen the old
citadel of feudalism. This last feature alone will
tend to immortaze the reign of Alexander the
Second.