ENIn the mid-1820s, there was a famous case in Lithuania of the disciplinary removal of Benedykt Puciłowski from the bar for careless words spoken before the court about the barbaric nature of the ukase. Puciłowski’s excess resulted in the Russian authorities’ decision to introduce the censorship of attorneys’ writings. The official correspondence preserved in the Vilnius collections sheds some light on the process of developing the relevant regulations. Keywords: the bar; censorship; Lithuania.