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Reforms came after the serfs' emancipation. Government created elected district assemblies or zemstvos, in 1864 that solved the local issues of health, education, and welfare. All classes elected district representatives to these assemblies, the zemstvos remaind the sub-ordinate to the tsarist autocracy, which keeeps the exclusive authority over national issues, and the landowning nobility, which possessed a disproportionately large share of both votes and seats. Legal reform was more fruitful than experimentation with the government. The new judiciary system was a system of law courts based on western models with independent judges. Legal reforms also instituted trial by jury for criminal offenses and elected justices who dealt with minor offenses. These reforms encouraged the attorneys and other legal experts, whose professional standards contributed to a decline in judicial corruption.