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From the Collection of enactment and decrees of the government for 1921, Administration of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR

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No 20 Article 109.

Decree of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars. On the abolition of payments from Soviet institutions, enterprises and farms for the use of mail, telegraph, radiograph and telephone.

Decree of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars.

To avoid mutual monetary settlements between departments and to simplify official communications by mail, telegraph, radiograph and telephone, the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars decided:

1. To abolish the collection of fees for the use of mail, telegraph, radiograph and telephone from all Soviet institutions, enterprises and farms receiving funds from the state treasury for their maintenance in the estimated order.

2. Add up all the arrears for the use of mail, telegraph, radiograph and telephone from the above institutions, enterprises and farms over the past time.

3. This decree comes into effect on April 1, 1920.

Signed by:

Chairman of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin) .

Head of Affairs of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissar Vlad. BonchBruevich .

Secretary L. Fotieva .

March 25, 1920.

Published in No. 67 of Izvestia of the All‐Russian Central Executive

Committee of Soviets dated March 27, 1920