EXTRACT FROM THE GAZETTE OF THE
SITTINGS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC
4 November 1919
Heard
The reports by the Ministry of Military
Affairs:
c) on release from discharging
the military obligations of Abkhazs, regardless their
different religious affiliation and on rendering them the right to serve as
volunteers.
Decided:
To suspend temporarily the application of
Article 1 of the Law on Military Obligations and Recruitment to the Military
Forces to the Abkhazs and instead render them the
right to serve as volunteers.
Chairman of the Government – N. Zhordania
Head of Government’s Chancellery – K. Japaridze
Secretary – Lomtatidze
Authentic with original – clerk (signed)
(Central State Historical Archive of Georgia,
f. 1938, des.1, file 294, p. 73)