LAW on Nationalization of the Teaching Institute and the Seminaries

a) To annul the national departments of Tbilisi Institute and Gori Seminary.

b) To declare Tbilisi vocational institute and the seminaries of Gori and Sukhumi as Georgian state schools.

c) To establish Abkhazian Department at Sukhumi Seminary.

d) To assign the credits for all of four schools from the state treasury.

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13 September 1918

Chairman of the National Council of Georgia N. Chkheidze

Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Georgia N. Zhordania

(Central State Historical Archive of Georgia, f. 1836, desc. 85, p. 87; The collection of the legal acts of the Democratic Republic of Georgia. Tbilisi, 1990, p. 62/in Georgian)