(To the Chairman of the Constituent Assembly of Georgia)

29 October 1920

The People’s Council of Abkhazia, at its sitting on 16 October of this year discussed the draft Constitution of the Autonomous Abkhazia and decided: “to delegate to the Constituent Assembly of Georgia the following members of the Council: 1) Varlam Shervashidze, 2) Ivan Pashalidi, 3) Dmitriy Zakharov, 4) Vasiliy Gurjua, 5) Mikheil Ubiria, 6) Mikheil Tarnava, 7) Mikheil Tsaguria, 8) Mikheil Berulava and 9) Dmitriy Alania for joint work on the draft-Constitution of the Autonomous Abkhazia; the Delegation shall base its work on the Act adopted on 20 March 1919 and the given draft of the Constitution”.

All of the Articles of the attached draft-Constitution are adopted unanimously except of Articles 5, 7, 9 and 10, which are adopted in two versions.

Attached: Draft-Constitution of the Autonomous Abkhazia adopted by the  Abkhaz People’s Council at its sitting on 16 October 1920.

Comrade of the Chairman: Akirtava (signed)

Head of the Chancellery: (signed)

(Central State Historical Archive of Georgia, 1833, desc. 1, file 865, p. 1)