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Now Alexey Alexandrovitch intended to demand: First, that a new

commission should be formed which should be empowered to

investigate the condition of the native tribes on the spot;

secondly, if it should appear that the condition of the native

tribes actually was such as it appeared to be from the official

documents in the hands of the committee, that another new

scientific commission should be appointed to investigate the

deplorable condition of the native tribes from the-(1) political,

(2) administrative, (3) economic, (4) ethnographical, (5)

material, and (6) religious points of view; thirdly, that

evidence should be required from the rival department of the

measures that had been taken during the last ten years by that

department for averting the disastrous conditions in which the

native tribes were now placed; and fourthly and finally, that

that department explain why it had, as appeared from the evidence

before the committee, from No.