A document was issued that streamlined the army conscription system: "General Regulation on the Collection of Recruits in the State and on the Procedures to Be Observed During Recruitment." Conscription duty, in addition to serfs and state peasants, was extended to the merchant estate, household servants, yasak-paying people, black-soil peasants, clergy, foreigners, and persons assigned to state-owned factories. A monetary payment in lieu of a recruit was permitted only for craftsmen and merchants. The age of recruits was set from 17 to 35 years, height not less than 159 cm.
Under the treaty of 1766, the English enjoyed special advantages in trade; for example, they could pay duties in circulating Russian coinage at the rate of 1 ruble 25 kopeks per efimok, whereas from other foreigners these were collected strictly in efimoks at the rate of 50 kopeks.
December 12 — Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin was born, a Russian historian, author of the 12-volume "History of the Russian State."