3. The proprietors of newspapers and advertising offices, as well as all employees of such establishments, should remain at their posts until the transfer of the advertisement business to the Government…. superintending the uninterrupted continuation of their houses, and turning over to the Soviets all private advertising and the sums received therefor, as well as all accounts and copy. 4. All managers of publications and businesses dealing with paid advertising, as well as their employees and workers, shall agree to hold a City Congress, and to join, first the City Trade Unions, and then the All-Russian Unions, to organise more thoroughly and justly the advertising business in the Soviet publications, as well as to prepare better rules for the public utility of advertising. 5. All persons found guilty of having concealed documents or money, or having sabotaged the regulations indicated in paragraphs 3 and 4, will be punished by a sentence of not more than three years’ imprisonment, and all their property will be confiscated. 6. The paid insertion of advertisements…. in private publications, or under a masqued form, will also be severely penalised. 7. Advertising offices are confiscated by the Government, the owners being entitled to compensation in cases of necessity. Small proprietors, depositors and stock-holders of the confiscated establishments will be reimbursed for all moneys held by them in the concern. 8. All buildings, officers, counters, and in general every establishment doing a business in advertising, should immediately inform the Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies of its address, and proceed to the transfer of its business, under penalty of the punishment indicated in paragraph 5. _President of the Council of People’s Commissars,_ VL. ULIANOV (LENIN). _People’s Commissar for Public Instruction,_ A. V. LUNATCHARSKY. _Secretary of the Council,_ N. GORBUNOV. 11. OBLIGATORY ORDINANCE 1. The city of Petrograd is declared to be in a state of siege. 2. All assemblies, meetings and congregations on the streets and squares are prohibited. 3. Attempts to loot wine-cellars, warehouses, factories, stores, business premises, private dwellings, etc., etc., _will be stopped by machine-gun fire without warning._ 4. House Committees, doormen, janitors and Militiamen are charged with the duty of keeping strict order in all houses, courtyards and in the streets, and house-doors and carriage-entrances must be locked at 9 o’clock in the evening, and opened at 7 o’clock in the morning. After 9 o’clock in the evening only tenants may leave the house, under strict control of the House Committees.