RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE TRANSCAUCASUS COMMISSARIAT

December 7, 1917

Heard the petition of the Executive Committee of the Council of Peasants’ Deputies of Sukhumi Okrug and of the local forest warden on inclusion again within the boundaries of the mentioned Okrug the Gagra Gubernia and the Bzib district seceded from Sukhumi Okrug and transferred to the Chernomorskiy Gubernia under Regulations approved by the Committee of Ministers of 25 December 1904. This issue was decided by the Trans-Caucasus Special Committee under Resolution of October 30 as an interim measure and the relevant motion was submitted to the Interim Government. Taking into account the urgent need to determine the final border between the Chernomorskiy Gubernia and Sukhumi Okrug, the Trans-Caucasus Commissariat decrees:

to abolish the Regulations approved by the Committee of Ministers on 25 December of 1904 and restore the historical boundaries of Sukhumi Okrug through including within the mentioned Okrug Gagra and Bzib regions.

Signed by Chairman: A. Gegechkori

Commissars: A. Chkhenkeli

M. Japarov

A. Ogadjanyan

F. Khan-Khoiskiy

M. Aslanov

Kh. Karchikyan

I. Khas-Mamedov

Authentic: for the clerk (signed)

(Central State Historical Archive of Georgia, f. 1818, desc. 2, file 135, p. 34)