Even more vigorously than matters of taxes, bills or land debts, they influenced the abandonment of the principle that the sejmik should serve only one act, the matter of land defense. At the regional assembly of 1652, in addition to recruitment issues, resolutions were passed regarding the order of the land (pretia rerum) and especially the security of the land. The following year, a regional assembly was held in Wiśnia on May 5, with the constitution marking
>) Ibidem No. 1)8, 119. ») Ibidem No. 105. ») Ibidem 182 art. 38. «) Lauda T. I. No. 114 art. 38 •) shoe No. 192. • Ibulem No. 225..) Lauda T. II..No. 142, Articles 8 and 9. Also in the Laudum of 1672 in Wiśnia, we read that the decision of the sejmik was postponed until the next congress; ob. No. 301 art. 3. «; Ibid No. 59.
19th century respected. It was about a fief soldier, but apart from resolutions regarding taxes, many others were passed regarding order and security of the land. On June 10, sejmiks are held in Przemyśl and Sanok, as an enforcement meeting in relation to the May sejmik, during which the date for the fian soldier's performance was set. At these assemblies, after the show held on June 10, independent resolutions on land defense are passed. Thus, the sejmik, having received the power to adopt defense from the Sejm, transfers it to itself for the future, dividing its scope and its manner into the land, in other words, developing the scope of action entrusted to itself. The issue of defense penetrates all sejmiks, in the second period of sejmiks from 1648, to such an extent that there is no sejmik where it was not discussed. Displays, i.e. shows of the nobility, at which, due to the king's warnings and the sejm constitutions, no deliberations were allowed 1), are now increasingly turning into noisy sejmiks, evidence of which is in our collection2). It is easy to understand that in the years of Berestek, Batoh and Zhvanets, the issue of land defense was one of the most urgent and that it had the greatest impact on the development of the scope of the activities of the assemblies. Assemblies are increasingly losing their character of deliberations serving one act, and sometimes it can be said that only the name of the sejmik remained, while the entire course of deliberations contradicted this name. At the parliamentary assembly on May 19, 1654, resolutions are passed regarding the presidium of Przemyśl, the courts for robbers and criminals; at the parliamentary meeting of 1659, a resolution was passed to free Przemyśl from taxes; In the same year, the inhabitants of Sanok were to adopt a resolution on land security, but among the 25 articles of laudum we read resolutions regarding the tenon, enforcement of wages, etc. in other words, matters that are closely related to matters relating to public security 3). In this way, local assemblies, regardless of the name of the ICB, are becoming more and more similar to the parliament, the reduced image of which they present; deliberations are held there, as in the Sejm, on all winter needs.
At this time, the sejmik usurped the power previously vested in the sejm and the king, namely to assemble the sejmik. This did not happen by breaking centuries-old laws and constitutions. On the contrary, we clearly see that the provincial authorities themselves necessarily grant the sejmik the power to convene a second sejmik. And so the assembly in Wisui was established in 16684), but the soldier must be paid what he deserves. The rest of the assembly, chaired by the voivode, decide on a congress in Lviv to decide on the payment of the banners, and the landowners of Sanok and Przemyśl also decide on salaries at their meetings. It should be added that the voivode himself signed the laudum of the broken sejmik and thus granted the sejmik the power to convene meetings aimed at accomplishing what the sejmik failed to do due to the rupture5). No wonder that the assembly itself was tempted to adopt a resolution to convene the assembly even earlier. We read in the Wiszeński laudum from the 7th
') See volume I. No. 119 art. 2. 2) Ob. below No. Article II 1, No. 2l art. 1, 18 No. 242 art. 1, No. 2*3 art, 57, No. 255 art. 4, No. 261 art. 1. 3) No. 157. <) No. 252; 353, 256. 5) Ob. No. 240.