^) Laudura Wiszenskie of May 12, 1643, No. 218. -) No. 221. ') No. 91, 225. '') No. 98, 09, 148. ^) No. 125, «) No. 211 art. 6.
- as mentioned - there were three ziimio. Each of them elects its own members to the Sejm, who, however, being representatives of their land, are also representatives of the voivodeship, because they are bound by one common instruction. Pursuant to this instruction, however, each land could grant different permission regarding collections, some took collections to the brothers, and some permitted zarfiz at the assembly. The lands which were taken to the brethren either by tax or by levy were assigned a separate sejmik at the sejm, first in Wiśnia, then in Lviv for the landowners of Lviv, in Sanok for the landowners of Aanok, in Przemyśl for the landowners of Przemyśl, where it was passed what was taken for the brethren, as we have proof of this in the resolution of the sejmik of the landowners of Przemyśl and Sanok in Cherry because of the election of the poboists in 1607.
Not only the differences between the landowners and the amount of salaries influence the decentralization of the Wisła sejmik, but other reasons contribute to this effect. For example, the general congress of Lviv in January 1587 held separate assemblies for the landowners of Przemyśl and Sanok in Przemyśl, and the second one in Sanok only for the election of hood judges, probably because of the small number of landowners there at the general assembly: territorial considerations also played a role here, the huge distance of Wiśnia and the borders of the Beskid Mountains, why the voivode sometimes called the inhabitants of Sanok to Sanok to hold meetings 2) and other land officials did the same during the fear, and finally the Wisze sejmik itself, with its authority, set a sejmik date for the inhabitants of Sanok to hold meetings on the subduing of the robbers in Sanok, as we have evidence of this from later times^). In Wiśnia itself, the inhabitants of Sanok sometimes held separate meetings at the assembly, since the affairs of their land were purely local and had no connection with the interests of other lands, and the resolutions adopted here under the authority of the Wiśnia assembly obviously concerned only the inhabitants of Sanok. There were, therefore, local differences of separate interests that influenced the decentralization of the Wisła sejmik, for which the foundations were laid already in the times of Sigismund, but which only in the times of John Casimir became more visible and led to a certain decentralization of local government in the voivodeship. It should be noted that the general also opposed this decentralization, especially when the king began to take advantage of the differences between these assemblies for his own purposes and to convene separate assemblies for the lands. At that time, the general made a solemn promise that in the future they would not hold any separate sejmiks, and here in Wiśnia they would all hold the sejmik together... and the laudum of the Lviv sejmik, although assembled by the king, was canceled 5). But these regulations, at a time when the Wisła sejmik had already begun to be fully decentralized, did not prevent further differentiation and further decentralization. The electoral sejmik was the most important and the most numerous, because here a member of the Sejm was elected and instructions were given on how to vote at the Sejm, sometimes giving him a strict order not to allow
') No. 33 art. U. ') No. 118, 119. ') Sanok Laudum of June 22, 1699. Dissertations and reports. department h. fil XLIX. 354. *) No. 229. Laudum of the Sanok landowners regarding defense against robbers. ') Laudum Wiszeńskie of October 26, 1662
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]) special motions or demands to be the subject of parliamentary deliberations. At this sejmik, settled and non-settled noblemen and poor people, as long as they lived in the voivodeship, could vote - only mayors, village heads, soldiers as non-nobles or dependent people were allowed to vote 1). Trading in votes and haggling in votes resulted in a protest against the electors. A candidate for an MP had to declare his willingness to accept the position and at least be present at the regional assembly. The General, consisting of the three lands of Lviv, Przemyśl and Sanok, elected six envoys, two from each land. In rare cases, when it was impossible to agree on candidates, a larger number was elected, excluding the minorities, as was done in 1593, when the Przemyśl region elected three deputies at the Wissen sejmik. It was only on the basis of the resolution of the Convocation Sejm of 1764 that seven members of the Sejm were elected as General Wiszeński; the seventh was elected from the Zhydachiv land, which had previously elected envoys together with the Lviv land.