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FILES
TOWN AND LAND
Vol. XX.
LAUDA SEJMIKOWE
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TOS
FILES
TOWN AND LAND
AS A RESULT OF THE FOUNDATION
late Aleksandra count. Stadnicki
PUBLISHED WITH EFFORTS
GALICIAN NATIONAL DEPARTMENT.
VOLUME XX.
IN LVIV.
MAIN STORE IN THE SEYFARTH AND TCHAIKOVSKY BOOKSTORE. FROM E. WINIARZ'S PRINTING HOUSE IN LVIV.
LAUM OF THE ASSEMBLY
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DEVELOPED
ANTONI PROCHASKA.
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LVIV, 1909.
PREFACE.
AND.
Lauda as historical sources. — The general sejmik of Wisze, its attitude to the Chełm and Halicz sejmiks. — Growth symptoms. — Striving for the highest provincial judiciary. — Symptoms of parliamentary life at the assemblies, at armed assemblies of the nobility, at demonstrations — Media militia. — Growth of sejmik life through general and patricular confederations, — Influence of dissidents on the development of the confederation. — Increasing types of sejmiks. — Development of the parliamentary assembly. — Increasing the activity of the regional council as a result of the provincial treasury. — Expansion of the assembly through decentralization. —The causes and growth of it. — Royal instructions and instructions for members of the Sejm. — The role of the marshal. — Senators and noblemen. — Townspeople. — Place of assemblies and armed congresses. — Shifting parliamentary matters to the local council. - Who convenes the assembly?
the assemblies of the two Ruthenian and Belz voivodeships will include in their content ^|and^ both the content of related acts this new ten-volume series of Town and Land Acts, starting from the 20th volume. They constitute a rich source of knowledge about the past of these great lands of the Polish Republic. In particular, land self-government is reflected in the development in the assemblies' resolutions from 1572, when they began to be entered in the town books, until the last times of the Republic of Poland. This self-government goes hand in hand with the parliamentary development from which it emerged; the assembly does not cease to be the holder of provincial self-government, supervises its bodies, corrects deviations, establishes or closes certain institutions, which it brings to life for political or social purposes.
The rapid development of sejmik life coincided with the times when sejmik resolutions began to be included in town acts. From 1572, we can already trace the development of parliamentary life in its four eastern centers on the basis of the Lauds, namely the development of three sejmiks of the Ruthenian Voivodeship, i.e. the General Wisze Voivodeship, covering the Lviv Land with the Zhydaczów County, the Przemyśl Land and finally the third Sanok Voivodeship; the second Halych sejmik for the Halych land
with the Kołomyja and Irembowla counties and the third Chełm sejmik for the Chełm land with the Krasno-Btava county; the fourth assembly center was in Bełz for the entire Bełżec Voivodeship with the Lubaczów, Horodło and Busko counties. From the acts of these four sejmiks we learn about the extremely active life of the landed gentry, the bold seizing of power into active hands, the growth of parliamentary life and its decline, we learn about the organization of the sejmik, its aspirations for development and decentralization directions and the effects of these, its attitude to other sejmiks, to the Sejm and to the central authorities, in short, the entire political and social life of the landed gentry finds here numerous explanations of its past. Let us briefly go through perhaps the more important moments, namely those for which new sources provide us with a better understanding, and above all, we can learn about the assembly itself, its organization and development directions.
We begin the publication with a collection of acts relating to the Wi-Bzeński sejmik.