22. Should voevodas of
regiments or officials of the central government in provincial cities
inform the Sovereign that either service people or people of other classes
had approached them in numbers resembling mass discontent or a conspiracy
and threatened to kill them, and if those people who had been reported on
should petition the Sovereign to investigate those voevodas and
officials of the central government and deny that they had approached them
with any mass discontent or a conspiracy and say that they came only in
small numbers to petition them, upon such petition of the Sovereign a
thorough investigation should be conducted of those city officials and, in
the regiments, of the military personnel. If this investigation in cities
and regiments should determine that these people really came to the voevodas
and to the officials of the central government with genuine petitions and
not for robbery purposes [as it had been reported], such people should not
be sentenced to death. Those voevodas and officials of the central
government who erroneously reported to the Tsar should be severely
punished as the Tsar may determine.
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