273 were responsible for seeing to it that the executions which were approved were carried out in the prescribed manner. The following five articles dealt with the provincial governor’s responsibilities concerning “military and war matters” in his province. If the enemy attacked the province, the landshövding!woevod^ was to inform the local officials in the neighboring provinces and see to it that the fortresses were provided with that which was necessary for their defense (article 7). In addition, it was the task of the provincial governor to see to it that the soldiers and sailors in the allotment system (in the Russian text referred to as soldaty i matrosy) received their stipulated maintenance, and that no conflicts over this arose between the military personnel and the peasant population responsible for their support (articles 8, 11). Russia had no counterpart to the Swedish system of soldiers and sailors being provided cottages and support fromthe peasants under the so-called allotment system {indelningsverket), but plans were underway for such a systemin Russia, too. The landshövding or voevoda was also to keep an eye on the “factories” {kazennye zavody) that produced war materiel in his province, and to see whether their deliveries agreed with the payments made to them by the crown. In the same vein, he was to take inventory at the artillery depot once a year (article 9). The text of the Swedish model was somewhat rearranged in the Russian instruktsiia. The beginning of article 10 of the Swedish instruktion, concerning the manufacture of saltpeter, was placed at the end of article 9 in the Russian text {selitrenoe varen'e), while the rest of the article, concerning the maintenance of the fortifications in the province, was placed as article 10 in the instruktsiia. Next came the regulation, in eleven articles (12—22), of public order in the province. Here, too, the Russian text followed the Swedish model. The provincial governor was to keep the local population under careful supervision so that any social disturbances could be dealt with quickly. First and foremost, the subjects were to be urged to obey the laws and observe the privileges Issued by the government (article 13). No one was to be allowed to drift about in the province without work, since this could create social unrest (articles 19—20). Not only that, but labor was scarce and the Swedish instruktion stipulated that whoever was capable of working, “be he man or woman, shall either take a job before the day appointed for them or be taken into the prison where such (offenders) are (kept), or to the king’s {Kungl. Maj:ts) fortresses and barns, or elsewhere where the king {Kungl. Ma']:t) most graciously desires it and his service requires it, there to work for their food” (article 19). Articles 16—18 bear witness to the steadily increasing importance and influence of commercial interests at this time. The provincial governor 18 - I’etersou
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