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| | Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.3, Entry 159, RUSSIA: Library of Economics and Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | The sovereign, as his title of emperor and autocrat of all the Russias indicates, is invested with a power without limit or control; not only is he supreme chief and legislator, but it is even only under his authority and by virtue of his delegation that the synod, charged with governing the national church, acts. |
 | | The nominations of functionaries are submitted to the approval of the emperor or of the governor according to the importance of the function. |
 | | Russia, from the agricultural point of view, has one hundred and seventy-five millions of hectares in arable lands and meadows, one hundred and eighty-eight millions in forests, fifty-seven millions in steppes which can be utilized as pasturage, and eighty millions in non-productive lands. |
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