365 texts will be presented in order to provide an idea of how the Swedish instruktion of 1712 was adapted by the Russians. The task of analyzing the instruktsiia for the Russian kommerts-kollegiia in a larger economic context in order, on the basis of the differences between it and its Swedish prototype, to identify the intentions of its authors cannot be undertaken here. One thing that can be said is that the instruktion for the Swedish kommerskollegium drawn up in 1712 was in all likelihood copied by Heinrich Pick during his visit to Stockholm in 1716, and that it is even possible that it was Pick who formulated the Russian instruktsiia on the basis of this Swedish source. The proposed instruktion for the kommerskollegium drawn up in 1712 provided for the administration of the customs and the supervision of customs officers by the newly restored college. When a position became available in the customs administration, the kommerskollegium was to propose a replacement to the royal government {Kungl. Ma):t). In relation to the kammarkollegium, which was responsible for the fiscal administration of the realm, a division of functions was introduced; everything having to do with administering customs revenues was to fall under the kammarkollegium, which meant that the customs officers were to submit their bonds, promissary notes, and accounts to that college. The same division of functions was introduced in Russia between the kommerts-kollegiia and the kamer-kollegiia. Swedish instruktion: Russian instruktsiia: I. 15. And as the king {Kungl. Maj:t) has thus found it most beneficial and useful to entrust to his Commercic Collegia the supervision and jurisdiction over the marine customs servants, the king {Kungl. Maj:t) likewise desires that both senior and junior servants dealing with the marine customs, licences, and port charges shall be required to obey the commercie collegia and receive their orders from it in everything that concerns the customs administration, and also to stand and answer there in related matters, it being the correct forum; for which reason the king {Kungl. Maj:t) finds it best that when positions become vacant in the marine 13. And since His Tsarist Majesty has determined that all marine customs servants are to be under the JuristDirektsieiu (sic, jurisdiction) or judgement of the kommcrts-kollegiia, so shall all senior and junior servants involved in the collection of the great customs duties recognize its authority and jurisdiction, and they are to obey all the ukazes of this college in that which concerns customs duties: therefore, this college has the authority to propose clever and meritorious persons to His Tsarist Majesty or the Senate when vacancies occur both within the realm and in the foreign provinces; namely: Ober-Direktory, Ober-inspektory, cusRA, Kommerskollegii arkiv, B la, vol. 64, Projekt till instruktion för kominerskollegiet. September 18, 1712. ■-« PSZ, V, no. 3,318, p. 673.
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