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1. We, the councils, dignitaries, officials and all the knights of the voivodeship of the Russian General, having gathered at the usual meeting place of our voivodeship here in Vishnia on the tenth day of the month of December in virtute vici from the Most Serene King Stanisław the First in Gdańsk on the eleventh month of October of the present year, dated by the king's own hand. Mci signed and confirmed with the seal of peace, to the town acts of Przemyśl and other general of the voivodeship of our Ruthenia anno eodem praesenti per obiatam, by which JW is allowed to the senators of each voivodeship to announce and gather officials, nobility and citizens, and in casu absentiae of those or renitentiae etiam the first official is allowed, in absentia then JO the prince voivode of Russia at the side of the Most Serene King Stanisław the first in Gdańsk, and JWIMci p. the castellan of Lviv in poor health in his old age, excusing himself, after the universal JWIMci p.

' Maciej Józef Ustrzycki cast. lviv. f 1737.

Mikołaj Sołtyk, Castellan of Przemyśl in Jarosław on the second day of the present month, dated in the own hand of the same JWIMci, Mr. Castellan of Przemyśl, signed and given per oblatum to the town acts of the general of our voivodeship, we first declare before God and the whole world that as after the descent of the late Mr. the Most Serene King Augustus the Second in orbitate at that time of the Republic of Poland the circa integritatem of rights, freedoms and freedoms of exclusion to the crown of a foreigner, our voivodeship, having confederated and bound itself with the vinculo iuramenti, illibate hoc sacrum foedus circa electionem of the Most Serene King Stanisław the First, has kept, and now seeing that not only this so holy, according to the obligations of the particular voivodeships and the general estates of the Republic of Poland, the confederation by jurament confirmed in accordance with vix non primo exemplo a condita in this homeland libertate, an election took place, from some passionate and impious sons of this homeland, more privatuminterestse like maintaining the inestimable freedom of those undertaking invalidari conatur, but also manifestis exemplis by introducing hostilis potentiae of Russian troops, which was not practiced in Prague non in loco solito, contra iuramentum et sancita of the Sejm cnnvocationis under the guns of this power of the excluded foreigner by pseudo-election and by other contra iura fidem et publicam wicked actions cardo libertatis of this free election annihilari praesumitur from the introduced foreign troops, with the spilling of the blood of this homeland concivium ab exotica tyrannide fortunes and houses abominabili desolatione devastentur, and this altogether to the destruction and destruction of our beloved freedom aperta in dies struuntur moUimina, which as this wicked action perpetue crimen posteritatis erit, now in herba suffocando malum occurendoque iacturae of our rights and freedom, taking the exempla and resolution of the ancestors of our ad normam former confederations and pledging first the circa integritatem of the holy Catholic faith, the immunity of the Lord's sanctuaries, as well as the rights and free election of kings, ut in libera gente of kings, without being subject to any external dependencies, impositions or exclusions circa independentiam et supremam maiestatem dominae iurium suorum Reipublicae, knowing no one else but themselves God's own sovereignty, under the dignity of the Most Serene King Stanisław the First, elected by unanimous votes, we go ad media licitae naturalis defensionis, both against exotic powers, as well as against all native laws, convulsions, internal confusion of the Republic of Poland, against domestic enemies, cuiuscumque sint status et praerogativae, by the general present confederation Warsaw umnium ordinum regni on the basis of former confederations on not coming with foreigners to the elections principaliter konfederacyi annorum millesimi quingentesimi octogesimi septimi post fata Stephani et millesimi sexcentesimi quadragesimi octavi post fata Yladislai, serenissimorum Regum Poloniae of the past decisions, and the manifesto in principiis of the Sejm of the Most Serene King Stanisław the First electionis by the same partisans about the introduction of Moscow troops in viscera regni, who in se ipsos ius tulerunt pro hostibus patriae.