The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-25
IMPERIAL DECREE
CREATES NEW POST
All Forces Are Subordinate 10
Governor General
TREP0FF HAS GREAT POWER
Can Demand Assistance of the Mill
tary and Possesses All the
Rights Of Minister of
the Interior.
TREPOFF HAS GREAT POWER

st. Petersburg, January 24-The APP
pointment of General Trepoff the former
chief of police of Moscow to be governor
general of St. Petersburg was accom-
panied by an imperial decree announcing
the creation of the post of governor
general. The incumbent of this office
the decree states, will be in control of
al the departments of administration
oil the city and government of St Peters
burg, with power to demand the assist
ance of the military and possessing all
the rights of the minister of the interior
over appointments to the municipal
council and the Zemstvos and also the
right to forbid individuals to remain in
the city.
The decree, which is addressed to tho
Senate. says:
Recent events have shown the neces-
sity for the adoption of measures for the
preservation of state institutions and
public security adapted to the extraor-
binary circumstances of the times. On
this account we have considered 1t neces-
sary to create the office of governor
general of st. Petersburg on the basis OF
the provisions of the law prescribing the
duties of chiefs and governor generals
and the following regulations:
Regulations are Issued.
Petersburg are placed under the authority
o. the governor general.
o. In questions where the maintenance
of state institutions and public security
are at stake, all the local civil authorities
and all the education institutions are
made subject to the governor general.
g. The governor general has the right,
with the assent of the minister of the In
terior to enforce measure sanctioned by
n rfi01a IAN Of oof1eOrabfn
"A. Apart from the right of making OBJ
ligatory the regulations in accordance
with law providing for stricter main
tenance of order, the governor general
will be empowered to make obligatory the
regulations affecting objects or property
of any kind in the interests of public
tranquility and order in his jurisdiction.
while In cases of violation of these regu-
latlons. the penalties and methods of pro-
cedure prescribed in articles 10 and 16 of
the law for the stricter maintenance of
or not to be adopted whereby the COVER
general can commission the governor
and project of st. Petersburg. who are
subject TO him to deal with said cases.
80. The governor general is empowered
to summon the civil authorities to sup
port him militarily as soon as he deems
1t necessary, and forces he considers
needful will be placed at his command.
1dS Cndr9e OF All.
The sixth section subordinates to the
governor general all the gendarmierie in
the administration and railroad gendar-
meries in his official district, as we'll as
the authorities and official personages in
the zone are appropriated for railroad
purposes. as far as police matters are con-
oerned.
Under the 7th section for police pur-
poses all government factories and work
shops in his official district are subordi-
mated to the governor-ge general Under the
eighth section all the rights of the min
lister of the interior with reference to
the confirmation in office of members
of the communal authorities and zem-
stvos in the territory Of the ST. Peters
burg government are transferred to the
govern or general.
BY the ninth section the governor-gen-
eral is empowered to prohibit individuals
remaining In his official district.