LAW on Tax-Collection

1. State, public, city and other due taxes, as well as the administration of tax-collection, including the distribution of reminding papers shall be the competence of:

a) In Tbilisi, Kutaisi, Sukhumi and Poti – the assistant to the Chief of Militia and the special tax-collecting Militia composed of senior and junior militiamen nominated by the Chief of Militia upon the consent of the Head of Treasury according the districts subject to taxation.

26 November 1918

Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia N. Chkheidze

Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Georgia N. Zhordania

(Central State Historical Archive of Georgia, f. 1836, desc. 1, file 85, p. 206-207)