| Show r RUSSIAN EMPEROR R 1 ISSUES M Czar the rhe Grout Grant to lo the tue P People ople of ni a n National Con Assembly ly TO BE READ IN TIlE THE CHURCHES Today Is k to 10 be lie Given GIen to 10 the People leople l All MI Over Cher CherI I be limp I re reSt St 51 Petersburg Aug 1 IJ Emptier NI Nicholas luis has announced ed the tue grant Irani to o the people of or Russia of ot a na nl national lIonal assembly to be formed h b by elected representatives representative I from the whole hole of ot Huista The rue Imperial manifesto which III IH h here ie and Ind at nt Moscow and und I which will b lie he rend real In nil all Ii the churches hurches of or the Is la dated at nt to toda today today da day and I In is as I follows follow The empire of or Russia Is formed and strengthened by the Indestructible soi ol of oC t the h emperor 1111 with h the people and lind of Ir the T people ople with the emperor This concord of ot emperor An and people IH tH the grout groat moral force torce which s 1 ha has hag cre created re fe I HUBS la In III th course ourie of oC centuries t hv by protecting her hor from rom all ml misfortunes I und and nil all and end lia lies hns constituted up I Ito to the present time lime a pled pledge of oC unity unit ne Integrity material wt eIl ll being urn und d dev lui ment MANa O Ol 01 In OUI our manifesto of or l V Peb eb b I 1903 we 0 tailed culled to u II do clove close e understanding oil elf Ih thu faithful sons son o of the rl ind in iii II order to 10 prot protect ct the of or th the state i b by establishing on u II firm finn basis the domestic life lIe of the tho empire and then we devoted ourselves to 10 Ih the task of or coordinating public lions with governmental and of or removing the thc e el ex existing tiling hung between them hlo hk II h lurid hud tc i ted MO 1010 dIsastrously on an the course tourne ot Of our national life lite The Tho our an ancestors constantly hud had thit object In view and hit ha hut conn to III follow ollow out nut their good and t to 10 HUtH mon nOn eluted fl fi Ih the thi whole of or to take tako und and active part purt In tile tho flu burnt Um 1111 01 ot Ih the laws lawn thereby to 10 the thc higher state Institutions a n pc i lK IK body dy entrusted d with the pi und and of mea inca measure sure sores a anti and with his examination of or the state late budget It U is fur for this renson reason that while preserving pro pre serving Nerving Ih the fundamental law haw regard hug Ing tho the power II we ue c hll have hite VO deemed It well to 10 form a 11 imla doum house e o of the as assembly assembly and to approve the regulations for fOI elections to this dooms douma extending the validity ot or these to the whole territory of ut the empire with such ex ox exceptions only HH RS may ho be e y III In the CIl cum I of or HO some mo regions In III which special conditions obtain An All the In the tho labors labor of ot the o of from Crom the grand duchy of or Finland on question con concerning th the tho empire In general und anil the grand In iii pin titular wo we will II In I measures At t the same name time we have han ordered the minister o of ot the Interior to 10 Immediately for Cor or our approbation regu regulation lot lation lotus to 10 the HO so that d from cit city guv and from the military pi 11 o 0 Inee ince of or th iii lion 1111 may beable bo IJo able to assemble not nol lutui thun Ih the of ot lOOi m fn Va e rc reserve to ourselves the cure of or the II of or ortho tho the douma donina and when the course of ot vents huu ha have I shown the necessity for fH correspond corresponding Ing completely to the tho neede or tho the times anti and the tilt of ot th the umpire we hall not nol tall rail to give at Ih the tue proper moment the nece necessary Wo sro o are convinced 1 that those e who shall have been elected bv by the deuce dance of or the whole who u 1 will Ill III I thus thu be he called upon to pt hart IlIr itc In Inthe Inthe inthe the legislative work o of tin govern I mont ment will show how them themselves In the ce ejes I of or all ull to bo II OI 01 thy of or th im imperial penal perla I trust In tho thu virtue o of which h they thoy I have been boen Invited to cooperate In III this hIs great work olk anti ami that hi In perfect rr rl hn hill I mony with other instItutions mid no IlU u I of the stat HINt 1 by hy I they thoy will u III contribute arid and I zealously to our labors labor for th til well 11 being of or our common mother I und for tor the of oC I lie unity II Y the security anti and th the gl of it tho the I 1 empire as s HI II nu nt for rOl the tho tranquility I and pro prosperity of at the people In Invoking tin the bl of nr Ih the ho Loid Loiti I Ion on the laborn o of till hit lui p t by u us UI Rn anti and with ton fon on I III In th the grace gince e o of oC t a 1111 1 I in ii t till in I Infallibility of or the great l I II nl ii I dt tIes by divine e for I our beloved fatherland we te v hOl hope o that thai with the tue help of God Cod Almighty I and with the combined of Ir nil iiii I her luer son eons w 1111 lii emerge ti ant Int nt from th the trying ordeals through which I she Itle U is now 1101 passing und will I Ii IN to horn born again alln In the tho strength ho the greit I n ness M and anti the glory or of litt hi toiv o tX cx t tending through 1 u tu a uti I it Given GIen Ht Itt this hlll day clAY of or In the till 11 of glare litre 1305 and the eleventh ir 1 of or our NICHOLAS |
