=Pale of Settlement= (Russian, _cherta osyedlosti_), foreshadowed in decree of May 7, 1786, restricting Jews to annexed White Russia, I 314 f enlarged as result of second partition of Poland (1793), I 316 f formally sanctioned by Law of June 23, 1794, I 317 enlarged as result of third partition of Poland (1795), I 317 f Courland added to (1795), I 321 defined in Statute of 1804, I 342 Kiev excluded from (1827), II 31 ff Courland [and Livonia] excluded from (1829), II 32 Sevastopol and Nicholayev excluded from (1829), II 32 accurately defined in Statute of 1805, II 39 f Nicholas I. watches over strict maintenance of, II 70 number of Jews and Jewish artisans in, II 168 Commission for Amelioration of Jews considers thinning out of (1871), II 193 gubernatorial commission appointed for every government of (1881), II 273 Ignatyev refuses to add to, II 285, 306 Rostov and Taganrog excluded from (1887), II 346 admission of Jews to schools in, restricted to 10% (1887), II 350; restriction placed on Statute books (1908-1909), III 157 f admission of Jews to universities in, restricted to 7%, II 29 disproportionately large number of Jewish recruits in, II 355 f congestion in cities of, II 385 Jews in, compared with prisoner in cell, II 389 Moscow refugees driven into, II 406 visited by United States commissioners, II 407 visited by Arnold White, emissary of Baron Hirsch, II 417 Yalta excluded from (1893), II 428 f governor of Vilna recommends abrogation of, III 11 zealously maintained under Nicholas II., III 16, 20 f growth of pauperism in, III 23 f localities in, barred to Jews in 1882, reopened to them (1903), III 80 f preservation of, affirmed by Third Duma (1908), III 154 one hundred and six Duma deputies favor abrogation (1910), III 156 exclusion of Jews from villages in, see Villages See also Interior, and Residence, Right of