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Commission
Mikhaylov, Alexandrovich24, Novatski, members of the Commission
A pencil note: Alakbar Khasmammadov passed away25
Reference: SARA, f.1061, op.1, d.95, ll. 9-10 (verso)
File No.40
Provisions of the Law on the Benefits Granted to the Population
in Connection with the International Recognition of
Azerbaijan’s Independence
Adopted by the Parliament of the Republic of Azerbaijan on
February 9, 1920
In connection with the international recognition of the Republic
of Azerbaijan and on the occasion of the final triumph of the new
state order, based of the ideas of the law and freedom, putting the
end to the period of oppression and enslavement in the life of the
Azerbaijani people, the Parliament hereby decreed to ease the lot of
those involved in criminal offences, as well as to relieve to burden of
certain tax and duty payers on the conditions named below:
2. To suspend prosecution of all those who prior to the date of
this Law, were involved in criminal offences nurtured by ethnic hostility.
10. All criminal cases instituted by the Ad Hoc Investigation
Commission established on July 15, 1918. With a view to investiga-
ting the acts of violence towards the Muslims and their assets all over
Trans-Caucasia since the European War shall be cancelled once and
forever.
On behalf of the Chairman of the Parliament
Signed by M.Y.Jafarov26, the Senior Deputy
Secretary: B.Rizayev
Head of the Chanellery: M.Vekilov27
Reference: SARA, f.895, op.3, d.301-17, l.16
Correspondence of the Ad Hoc Investigation Commission. Records of the Investigation and
Judiciary Agencies of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan and
the Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan