 Its ratification by Sultan Mahmud II was not a requirement from Kiselyov's perspective, who began enforcing it as a "fait accompli" before this was granted.The final version of the document sanctioned the first local government abiding by the principles of separation and balance of powers.The "hospodars", elected for life (and not for the seven-year term agreed in the "Convention of Akkerman") by an Extraordinary Assembly which comprised representatives of merchants and guilds, stood for the executive, with the right to nominate ministers (whose offices were still referred to using the traditional titles of courtiers) and public officials; "hospodars" were to be voted in office by an electoral college with a confirmed majority of high-ranking boyars (in Wallachia, only 70 persons were members of the college).