64 and 142.] [Footnote 2: See above, p.

148 et seq.] The abolition of juvenile conscription followed automatically upon the annulment, by virtue of the same Coronation Manifesto, of the general Russian institution of "cantonists" and "soldier children," who were now ordered to be returned to their parents and relatives.

Only in the case of the Jews a rider was attached to the effect that those Jewish children who had embraced Christianity during their term of military service should not be allowed to go back to their parents and relatives, if the latter remained in their old faith, and should be placed exclusively in Christian families.
The Coronation Manifesto of 1856 marks the end of the recruiting inquisition, which had lasted for nearly thirty years, adding a unique page to the annals of Jewish martyrdom.

In the matter of conscription, at least, the Jews were, in a certain measure, granted equal rights.

The operation of the general statute concerning military service was extended to them, with a few limitations which were the heritage of the past.