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30 governors to more drastic measures, and especially to use for this purpose the power vested in them of "administrative process." Every governor of a province in Russia has the power to get rid of persons living within his jurisdiction, who in his sole opinion are suspected of designs against the peace of the province. No trial at law is necessary. The governor can transport either to Siberia or the Caucasus any persons who are considered troublesome, but against whom the evidence is not sufficiently strong to allow of a trial by jury. This is the dread administrative process. Some of the governors, and to their credit it must be said, were not at all eager to exercise this despotic power; others, notably the governor of Kief, made themselves conspicuous by their arbitrary use, or, rather, abuse, of it.

We now enter on the period of systematic effort to get rid of the Stundist leaders. In the following chapter we hope to give some examples of what has been done in different parts of the country by these Inquisitors of the nineteenth century. We shall have some strange tales to tell.