PHARMANS

PHARMANS No.1 and No.2 of November 11th and 15th, 1917, the orders of the Bashkir Central Shuro. Due to the overthrow of the Provisional Government and absence of legitimate central authority Ph.No.1 announced the acceptance of the administrative functions over the Malaya (thе Smaller) Bashkiriya territory and local Bashkir shuros of Orenburg Gub.; creation of armed forces to ensure the safety of the Bashkir people in the conditions of the Civil War and practical implementation of territorial autonomy. Ph.No.2 proclaims the inhabited by the Bashkirs territories of Ufa, Orenburg, Perm and Samara guberniyas the autonomous part of the Russian Republic; announces the implementation of autonomous administration within the boarders of Malaya Bashkiriya. According to the doc., from the day of the declaration of autonomy, the Bashkir land, capital and property, troops, banks, railway, post office, and telegraph, which had all been appropriated by the state and individuals, had to pass under the authority of the Bashkir Central Shuro. Administrative division into guberniyas and uyezds was replaced by cantons.