The Session was opened by the Governor of the Province, who in his speech to the nobles told them that in choosing occupants for posts they should show no partiality, but should choose according to merit and for the welfare of the country, and that he hoped the honourable Nobility of Kashin would strictly fulfil its duty as it had done in previous elections, and would justify their sovereign's high confidence in them.
L’assemblea l’aprì il governatore, che fece un discorso ai nobili, perché eleggessero funzionari non secondo le simpatie personali, ma secondo i meriti e il bene della patria, e disse di sperare che la degna nobiltà di Kašin, come nelle elezioni precedenti, avrebbe compiuto santamente il proprio dovere e avrebbe giustificato l’alta fiducia del monarca.