THE REGULATION OF TRADE BY THE LOCAL ADMINISTRATION FROM THE END OF THE 19 TILL THE BEGINNING THE 20 CENTURIES (ACCORDING TO THE MATERIALS OF THE ENISEY GUBERNIYA)

The article is devoted to various aspects of the regulation in the trade sphere made by the local administration. It reveals how the city councils formalized and standardized the local commerce at the same time they took part in the execution of Russian imperial law (legislation). The author pays attention to relations between the city councils and the merchants. The sources are the meeting minutes of the City Council, the sanitary inspectors' reports, the sellers' petitions, and various kinds of instructions and regulations. In this time the local administration not only used to follow the observing of all laws and regulations, but also to conduct various actions for the management and regulation of trade. They used to lay down the trade rules, to follow the sanitary conditions of markets and trading places, to struggle against monopolies. The main objective of this activity was not limitation of business initiative but control of city economic life and protection the interests of the townspeople. In this area the limitation policy combined with the promotional measures.

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