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Show IRADE BY THE SULTAN. Removes Restrictions On Armenians and Many Pardons Granted. Constantinople, Oct. 12. An imperial irade has been issued abolishing all measures that prevented the free movements of Armenians. It also orders the rebuilding' and repairing, with government assistance of churches, schools and monasteries destroyed during the troubles and the payment of sums due officials or the families of officers who were killed or disabled during the uprising. The irade also pardons fifty-four prisoners and commutes to imprisonment imprison-ment for life the sentences of twenty-four twenty-four pers;ons condemned to death. As this action on ' the part of the Ottoman government is accepted by the patriarchs as satisfactory, these dignitaries digni-taries will withdraw their resignations. |
