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courts (community court). New camp szlachta
                              courts  were  introduced  instead.  Hetmanate
                              was  divided  into  20  court  districts.  Each
                              district held the provincial land court  dealing
                              with  civil  cases,  pidkomorsky  court  dealing
                              with  land  cases  and  hrodsky  court  dealing
                              with  criminal  cases.  General  court  was  the
                              highest  instance  represented  by  2  general
                              judges and elected officials from starshyna of
                              each regiment;
                              4) by the tsarina’s decree hetman was obliged
                              to report to Russian government about profits
                              and expenses of the Ukrainian state treasury;
                              5)  one  of  the  main  signs  of  autonomy  was
                              liquidated – the custom  house on the  border
                              of Hetmanate and Russia;
                              6)  by    K.  Rozumovsky’s  universal  (order)
                              peasants  were  forbidden  to  move  to  a  new
                              place  of  living,  they  had  to  get  a  written
                              landlord’s  permission  and  leave  all  their
                              possessions to him.
            1764              The abolition of Hetmanate. Catherine ІІ, on
                              becoming  the  Russian  tsarina,  in  1762
                              decided to unify the system of administration
                              in  the  whole  empire,  destroy  all  particular
                              features  of  Ukraine,  thus  turning  it  into  an
                              ordinary  province  of  Russia.  In  1764  the
                              hetmanate  in  Ukraine  was  abolished.  K.
                              Rozumovsky got a high pension, considerable
                              landed estates and the rank of Field-Marshal-
                              General.  The  governance  of  Ukraine  was
                              given  to  the  Second  Little  Russia  Board
                              headed  by  the  governor-general  of  Little



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