EXTRACT FROM THE GAZETTE OF THE SITTINGS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA

Heard

7. The report by the Minister of Internal Affairs

b) The telegram sent by the Electoral Commission of the former  Abkhaz People’s Council Shervashidze about necessity of covering some expenditure from the current account of the People’s Council.

Decided:

1) To entrust the Minister of Finance with the task of instructing the state bank to assign to Shervashidze the necessary amount of money from the current account of the former  Abkhaz People’s Council for covering the expenses for abolishing the Council and the needs of the Electoral Commission.

17 October 1918

Secretary – V. Kandelaki (Signed)

(Central State Historical Archive of Georgia, f. 1938, desc. 1, file 8, p. 29)