(RESOLUTION of the Congress) on changes of Articles:44,48,49,52,53,54,64 and 78 and revoking Article 51 of the Basic law (Constitution) of the Georgian SSR

The Seventh All-Georgian Congress of the Soviets of Workers, peasants and Read Army Deputies, on the basis of section “a” of Article 19 of the Basic Law (Constitution) of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia, decrees:
To introduce the following changes to the Basic Law (Constitution) of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia:

9. Article 78 (SU 1931, N9, Article 92) shall be formulated as follows:

“78. Central Executive committees of the Autonomous Republics or Oblasts shall form the relevant republic or oblast organs for the purpose of management of the autonomous branches of the state management (education, Health-care, Social Protection, Courts), as well as for management of joint branches (Local Industry, Agriculture, Internal Trade, Public Utilities, Labour). Representative of the People’s Commissariats of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia shall operate at the Central Executive committees of the Autonomous Republics entitled to direct the management of state branches on the whole territory of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia.

The agencies of joint branches of the state management located on the territories of autonomous republics or oblasts and subordinate to the central executive committees of the autonomous republics or oblasts, shall carry out the directives and tasks of the relevant People’s Commissariats and the Trade Unions of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia; the latter are authorized to revoke the directives if they contradict to the directive of the central executive committees of the respective autonomous republics and oblasts, as well as to legislations of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Trans-Caucasus Soviet Federative Republic and the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia. The representatives of the People’s Commissariats of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia, being the organs of these commissariats in the autonomous republics and oblasts, shall submit the report on their activity to the central executive committees of the autonomous republics and oblasts.

Chairman of the Seventh All-Georgian Congress

of the Soviets of Workers, Peasants and Read Army Deputies – Ph. Makharadze

Secretary of the Seventh All-Georgian Congress

of the Soviets of Workers, Peasants and Read Army Deputies – T. Zhgenti

13 January 1935

(The Congresses of People’s Deputies of the Georgian SSR. 1921-1937; Collection of documents. Tb., 1980, p. 329-331)