EXTRACT FROM THE GAZETTE OF THE SITTINGS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE

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

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)