LAW on application of the language at the self-governance agencies

1.  Discussion, paper-work and correspondence at the city and regional agencies of self-governance is carried out in state language.

2.  Upon the discussion of the self-governing agency some other local language can be used while delivering the speech or filing the application.

3.  If more than half of the population residing within the territory of certain self-governance speaks the same local - non-Georgian language, the discussion and paper-work, together with the state language can be carried out in the language of the given majority upon the decision of the self-governance.

4.  This law has no application to Sukhumi and Sochi Okrug.

5.  This law shall come into force since it is adopted by the Parliament.

14 January, 1919

The original is signed by:

Comrade (deputy. tr.) of the Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia I. Baratashvili

Chairman of the Government of the Republic N. Zhordania

(Collection of Laws and Decrees issued by the Government, #1, 1919, 14 January, p. 10; Central State Historical Archive of Georgia, f. 1683, desc. 1, file 1430, p. 5-6)