321 gubernUa by the time the plan for the courts was drawn up.®® The new system was to be implemented in the St. Petersburg guherniia six months before it was introduced in the other guherniiF* Altogether, the college’s plan called for twenty-two oberlantrikhtery, twenty-two landsekretari, and one hundred twenty-four lantrikhtery, or a total of one hundered sixty-eight officials for the realm as a whole; the wstits-kollegiia, then, would have to find a considerable number of men who were competent to fill these judicial positions. In conclusion, the plan pointed out that the need for scriveners had still not been calculated since, “in spite of the repeated ukazes of the Ruling Senate, no information had been sent to the iustits-kollegiia either from the gubernii or from the towns.” ®® On December 3, 1718, the iustits-kollegiia presented a legislative proposal for a new court system,®® and on the same day Heinrich Pick presented a memorandum with the title “Unterthänigste Anmerkungen iiber die Eintheilung der schwedischen Ober- und Unter-Gerichte. study of the court reform, M. M. Bogoslovskii presented the college’s, or Matveev’s, proposal and Pick’s memorandum as two alternative proposals,^* but he was incorrect in doing so. In connection with the preliminary work on the ukaz concerning the judicial hierarchy. Pick had been directed to submit a supplementary memorandum concerning the Swedish courts, while the material for the ukaz itself was the draft that had been drawn up in the Senate. This was not, therefore, a situation in which there were two separate proposals, as Pick’s memorandum, which closed with the following sentence, itself made evident: “Dieses wenige habe ich auff specialen Gnädigsten Befehl, beij Abwesenheit des H. Vice Praesidenten von Brevern, in dieser Sache unterthanigst zur Hand geben miissen. The vice president of the iustits-kollegiia, and former vice president of the Livonian court of appeals, Hermann von Brevern, was in fact the person charged with informing the college about Swedish procedural law, a subject about which he was well informed.^® In his absence, however. Pick In his ” 70 ” 72 Under the heading St. Petersburg, the following was stated in the plan quoted here: “The St. Petersburg guberniiu, which has now been divided into twelve separate gnhernir \ TsGADA, f. 248 delo 58 1. 315; sec Bogoslovskii (1902), 169. See above, p. 253. O'* TsGADA, f. 248 delo 58 1. 317v. ZA (no. 381), 372. "0 TsGADA, f. 248 delo 58 11. 34—35. Bogoslovskii (1902), 168—172. •- TsGADA, f. 248 delo 58 1. 35. '■* Latkin, 22. Hermann von Brevern was a member of the commission on the laws which was appointed in 1720 in order to produce a legal code for Russia. He drew up 21 - Petersou 00
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