Establishment of simplified public administration in non-district towns and posads of Chernihiv province to the regulation of 1892
The purpose of the article is to characterize the process of forming the simplified public administration in non-district towns and posads of Chernihiv province, its structure, limits of competence, the number of voters and commissioners delegated according to the Regulation of 1892. Research methods are determined by the goal, based on the principles of historicism and objectivity. They are represented by general scientific methods of analysis, induction and special-historical: historical-genetic and historical-comparative. The scientific novelty of this article is that it is the first attempt to study simplified public self-government of the late XIX on the materials of Chernihiv province. Using a representative source base, absolute and relative number of voters and commissioners in non-district towns and posads at a specified time were calculated. As a result of the study we can make the following conclusions. The simplified public administration was started in 20 localities of Chernihiv province, 3 non-district towns and 17 posads by the reform of 1892. Owners of real estate, worth at least 100 rub., from which they paid taxes to the local budget, were given the opportunity to vote. They elected a meeting of commissioners endowed with administrative power, the executive – relied on the chief and his assistants. The limits of the simplified self-government competence covered a wide range of economic and household issues, which were resolved collegially, by a majority vote of commissioners. The activity took place within the city legislation, under the direct control of provincial administration and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The existing electoral system minimized the number of people with the right to express their will, who, by social affiliation, usually came from privileged classes. The simplified structure of public administration allowed to accumulate the power in hands of a meager number of commissioners, which made it impossible to represent proportionally the interests of all social strata in ...