Residency Provision Supply Board

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RESIDENCY PROVISION SUPPLY BOARD, an administrative committee in charge of apartments and other units pertaining to the police, agency of State administration. It was founded according to the Regulations for the capital city St. Petersburg, dated September 12, 1798 instead of abolished institutions: General City Duma and Six-membered council, city and provincial magistrates, and the Public assistance board. The board was headed by Grand Prince Alexander Pavlovich (emperor-to-be Alexander I), and the members were to be appointed by emperor (St. Petersburg governor-general was in its staff ex officio). Under the jurisdiction of the board were such institutions as City buildings office, Municipal Government and Rathaus. The board was in charge of municipal income and expenditures, the matters of city garrison troops quartering, it also gathered information of the residency, number of houses, gardens, trades, provisions consigned to the market, controlled food prices etc. The board was abolished in February of 1802 (all city institutions liquidated earlier were subsequently restored).

References: Высоцкий И. П. Санкт-Петербургская столичная полиция и градоначальство, 1703-1903: Крат. ист. очерк. СПб., 1903. С. 71-72.

Y. N. Kruzhnov. Alexander I, Emperor
Высоцкий И. П. Санкт-Петербургская столичная полиция и градоначальство, 1703-1903: Крат. ист. очерк. СПб., 1903 City Administration (entry)
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