1. John Casimir, by God's grace, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Smolensk, Czerniechów and Sweden, Goth, Vandal, hereditary king. To everyone and everyone who needs to know this, but especially to dignitaries, officials of the nobility and clergy of the Lviv land, who kindly and faithfully accept our royal grace. Kindly and faithfully kind to us! In order that the consortium of the former Warsaw Sejm on the fortification of the city, adopted for execution, would be brought to the attention of U and W. to fulfill your expressed obligations in this consortium on the fortification of Lviv1), we hereby give this our universal to the U. and W., submitting to the U. and W. your assembly in Lviv pro die decima mensis Martii. 2. In order to decide on the et ration of this fortification, we want to have the money for it and for the engineer without whom anything can be done from the excise duty or other public taxes and the materials belonging to this fortification, we want to have it on the U. and W., yours, however, so that you do not incur any burden on the city of Lviv in relation to this fortification, because there are many other burdens public is already burdened. 3. And since the city incurs a great expense for various envoys who go there and go alone, who have to pay the expenses and taxes of the government, therefore, taking into account the destruction of the townspeople there, who cannot bear these burdens due to their poverty, we relinquish all the burden of paying for the envoys and free them from it, and we urgently demand from your U. and W. that you allocate a certain sum of they did not mark public taxes and always ordered the executors to hand over the land there. You will make this your U. and W. for our grace. For better faith, we ordered the crown seal to be pressed when signing our hand. Given in Toruń on the sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and fifty-ninth, reign of our Polish and Swedish, eleventh year. John Casimir the king. Andreas Miaskowski regens cancellariae regni.
Castr. Leop. Rei. 407 p. 317—318.
Wiśnia, February 28, 1659. Laudum of the Wisnia sejmik.
1. We, the councils, dignitaries, officials, citizens of the lands of Lviv, Przemyśl and Sanok of the Russian Voivodeship, having come to Wiszno for the assembly before the Sejm pro die vigesima octava Februarh submitted1), anno millesimo sexcentesimo quinquagesimo nono, make it known that, as at the previous Sejm in Warsaw, ex consensu ordinum of salaries of twenty and a half sine abiuratis in the poviats, election is allowed and approved, so that from among the relatives of Mr. our collectors concluded that such collections were only ad rationem, the force of our citizens free indulgentia towards devastated properties, so in compliance with the same parliamentary declaration, we declare that, considering such an urgent need for the homeland, all aequaliter nemine excepto these collections in each land, in the previous sejmik relationis laudum specified2) as soon as absque ulla renitentia sub paenis in legibus descriptis sine abiuratis into the hands of these IMs. they issued tax collectors who would continue to elect them a die decima quinta Martii in Lviv and Przemyśl and in Sanok a die vigesima secunda eiusdem and they would finish them over two Sundays. 2. And since the summa eorrespondes summa eorrespondes will not be sufficient for the supplementation of these collections, the remainder of the defects and the retainer from the tenon and excise tax, they leave such a supplement to themselves after the coequalization through the equal distribution of salaries, the land of Lviv until the future congress in Lviv pro die decima Martii by the universal J. kr. The above-mentioned lands of Przemyśl and Sanok to the regional assembly, and especially from the retentions of the old various lands, such as spigots and excise taxes, according to the laudum of the previous regional assembly, and what ways the land that absque gravamine will be able to invent for itself at that time. 3. And since, due to the greatness of matters and a short period of time, the fisci courts allowed by the constitutions and the past laudum approved, which we also approve, could not be completed so far, we decide that in our lands of Lviv, Przemyśl and Sanok, each land in its own place and in the order described in the laud
') Royal universal dated from Toruń on January 11, 1659, C. San. 171 p 224. ') P. N. 1-tG.