In turn, the Committee of Ministers yielded to Ignatyev's demand that the project should be enacted with every possible dispatch, without preliminary submission to the Council of State.
Such was the genesis of the famous "Temporary Rules" which were sanctioned by the Tzar on May 3, 1882.

Shorn of all bureaucratic rhetoric, the new laws may be reduced to the following laconic provisions: _First_, to forbid the Jews henceforth to settle anew outside of the towns and townlets.
_Second_, to suspend the completion of instruments of purchase of real property and merchandise in the name of Jews outside of the towns and townlets.
_Third_, to forbid the Jews to carry on business on Sundays and Christian holidays.
The first two "Rules" contained in their harmless wording a cruel punitive law which dislodged the Jews from nine-tenths of the territory hitherto accessible to them, and tended to coop up millions of human beings within the suffocating confines of the towns and townlets of the Western region.

And yet, notwithstanding its tremendous implications, the law was passed outside the ordinary course of legal procedure--under the disguise of "Temporary Rules," which, in spite of their title, have been enforced with merciless cruelty for more than a generation.
2.

ABANDONMENT OF THE POGROM POLICY After imposing a severe and immediately effective penalty upon Russian Jewry for having been ruined by the pogroms, the Government suddenly remembered its duty, and dangled the threat of future penalties before the prospective instigators of Jewish disorders.

On the same fateful third of May, the Tzar sanctioned the decision of the Committee of Ministers concerning the necessity of declaring solemnly that "the Government is firmly resolved to prosecute invariably any attempt at violence on the person and property of the Jews, who are under the protection of the general laws." In accordance with this declaration, a senatorial ukase dated May 10 was sent out to the governors, warning them that "the heads of the gubernatorial administrations would be held responsible for the adoption of timely measures looking to the prevention of the conditions leading to similar disorders and for the suppression of these disorders at the very outset, and that any negligence in this regard on the part of the administration and the police authorities would result in the dismissal from office of those found guilty." This warning was accompanied by the following confession: In view of the fact that sad occurrences in the past have made it evident that the local population, incited by evil-minded persons from covetous or other motives, has taken part in the disorders, it is the duty of the gubernatorial administration to make it clear to the local communes that they are obliged to adopt measures for the purpose ...