DECREE ISSUED BY THE  ABKHAZ PEOPLE’S COUNCIL on participation of its representatives in Liquidating Commission working on dissolution of the Trans-Caucasus Seima

Abkhazia, being a member of the Trans-Caucasus Federative Republic may be considered as a legal person, which shall be responsible for part of debts of the collapsed Republic.  Being a payer of the debts of the Trans-Caucasus Federative Republic, the People’s Council of Abkhazia, which took certain liabilities deems necessary to be involved in the activity of the Liquidating Commission on the equal footing with other representatives of the nations of Federation, agencies of the Trans-Caucasus Federative Republic and Russia.  For this purpose we give the authorization to V. G. Gurjua, G. D. Ajamov and G. D. Tumanov.

Chairman – signed

For secretary - D. Gulia

2 June, 1918

(Ruslan Khodjaa, Documents and Materials of the  Abkhaz People’s Council 1918-1919. Sukhum, 1999, p. 6/in Russian)