Nor did the liberally conceived Judicial Regulations of 1864 [2] contain any important discriminations against Jews.

Within a short time Jewish lawyers attained to prominence as members of the Russian bar, although their admission to the bench was limited to a few isolated cases.
[Footnote 1: A system of local self-government carried on by means of elective assemblies and its executive organs.

There is an assembly for each district (or county) and another for each government.] [Footnote 2: Among other reforms they instituted the Russian bar as a separate organization.] Little by little, another dismal spectre of the past, the missionary activity of the Government, began to fade away.

In the beginning of Alexander's reign, the conversion of Jews was still encouraged by the grant of monetary assistance to converts.

The law of 1859 extended these stipends to persons embracing any other Christian persuasion outside of Greek Orthodoxy.