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Show REVISING PEASANT LAWS. Zomsvos and Peasants to Send Representatives Repre-sentatives to Hearing. ST. PETERSBURG, OcL 22.-PrInco Mlrsky, following out tho "promises ho mado upon assuming tho Ministry of tho Interior regarding the tho Imperial manifesto mani-festo of ICO."?, has Invited all classes, nnd especially tho Zomsvos and peasants, to chooso representatives to sit with tho committee which Is considering tho revision re-vision of the peasant laws. Tho manifesto contemplated the co-operation of nil classes. Including the Zemsvos, in this Important Im-portant work, one of tho purposes of which Is to secure additlonnl privileges for tho peasjMils, especially with tho view to giving mem an opportunity, of divorcing di-vorcing themselves from tho vlllugo communes. com-munes. M. Plehvo treated this portion of tho manifesto as a dead letter. Imposing tho duty of choosing representatives upon tho provincial governors, who were prne-tically prne-tically his own appointees, or nt least alvays al-vays under lila Immediate control. Over eighty volumes represent tho material recommendations of the local governments govern-ments on this subject. |