Show BALLOT RUssian Council of Ministers PreparIng PreparIng Ing SerIes of Regulations St Petersburg March order to Insure freedom of ballot in election for members of the national assembly the council of ministers is preparing a se series series ries of regulations for the punIshment or of those interfering with the t normal course of the elections by threats of violence corruption or other illegal means Persons guilty of preventing members of the national assembly or council of the empire from proceeding from their homes to fulfill the duties to which they have hae been elected shall be deprived of civil rights for from four to six years and imprisoned at bard labor For damaging the houses of parliament or throwing bombs with the purpose of Injuring them the penalty is prescribed of often often ten to fifteen years imprisonment at athard athard hard labor or l if such persons shall be armed they may be sentenced to fifteen or twenty years imprisonment or to life imprisonment at hu hard labor abor |