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Show CZAR APPROliES 1 LATE RES0LUT10S ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. 12 An imperial orJer has ben published confirming a resolution recently adopted by the cabinet permitting Jewish merchants of the frst guild to if-slJe in the city and province or Moscow. j Emperor Nlcholns on Nov. 1 ap- pioved the opening of new sections for the realdenco of Jews. Heretofore ; legal residence or Jews had been re- j stricted to that .-cction of the Polish provinces and the Ukraine limited by I the original Jewish segregation law and known as tho "pale." The new sections embraced 12 dls- I trcts in the provinces of Vltebak, Volhynla. Mohlk-v. roltava and Kher- . ton. and the town ol Yeatorinodar. 1 The action of the government result- , ed from petitions of the inhabitants or the newly opened localities, who ' .ksircd the admission of Jewish re.sl- 1 ients as a means t,t improving local lu6iness conditions. |