The first proposal was the draft on the family register made by Eiichi SHIBUSAWA who was in charge of revision at Minbusho (Ministry of Popular Affairs) in December, 1869 for Shigenobu OKUMA who was Okura no taifu (a senior assistant minister of the Ministry of Treasury), when the both Ministries were unified in effect (according to "OKUMA monjo (written material)," present Institute of social science of Waseda University).
解放令が検討された最初の案は、明治2年（1869年）12月に民部省改正掛の渋沢栄一より、大蔵大輔大隈重信（当時、民部省と大蔵省は事実上統合されていた）にあてて提出された戸籍に関する草案である（現在早稲田大学社会科学研究所「大隈文書」）。