Its only positive feature was that it put a stop to the expulsion from the villages which had ruined the Jewish population during the years 1804-1830.
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THE RUSSIAN CENSORSHIP AND CONVERSIONIST ENDEAVORS With all its discriminations, the promulgation of this general statute was far from checking the feverish activity of the Government.

With indefatigable zeal, its hands went on turning the legislative wheel and squeezing ever tighter the already unbearable vise of Jewish life.

The slightest attempt to escape from its pressure was punished ruthlessly.
In 1838 the police of St.Petersburg discovered a group of Jews in the capital "with expired passports," these Jews having extended their stay there a little beyond the term fixed for Jewish travellers, and the Tzar curtly decreed: "to be sent to serve in the penal companies of Kronstadt." [1] In 1840 heavy fines were imposed upon the landed proprietors in the Great Russian governments for "keeping over" Jews on their estates.
[Footnote 1: A fortress in the vicinity of St Petersburg.] Considerable attention was bestowed by the Government on placing the spiritual life of the Jews under police supervision.

In 1836 a censorship campaign was launched against Hebrew literature.