[1] Tax paying members of the Armenian Gregorian church were given suffrage to elect representatives to the National Assembly, which included 140 yerespokhan, or deputies, 20 of whom were from the clergy.
[3] Other committees are appointed in the areas of finance, expenditures and taxes, social litigation, and other financial and legal matters.
[3] Armenians were required to participate in the elections of the patriarch and the community councils through their representatives, as well as to pay taxes in order to preserve and defend their rights.
[4] The National Assembly was a platform which Armenian representatives took to highlight government corruption and abuses by Kurdish tribes.
[5] In 1913, a memorandum was dispatched to the Grand Vizier Mahmud Shevket Pasha on the difficult disposition of the Armenians in the Empire.