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18. City starosts who have jurisdiction over their lands and districts under ancient laws are obliged to catch loose and suspicious people in legal proceedings cum adminiculo capitaneali and bring them to execution, to observe internam -pacem et securitatem incolarum, so providendo eidem securitati internae and, maintaining good order, in praemissis they will order JW. Gentlemen, Members of Parliament, that every city starosta in the land, i.e. in his own district, honoring with his jurisdiction, the people iuxta proportionem intrata pro praesidio in every city where courts are held, moderated and punctually, and should not deny them, according to the description of Polish law, in accordance with the equitable requisite cuiusvis incolae possesionati, to an event permitted by law. Also, the border starosts should keep the praesidia according to the ancient laws, and a nobleman who has settled ad vicinius castrum of both the city and the border staroste will be allowed to sue the staroste in casu contraventionis pro poenis lege interponendis for all this.

19. The Ruthenian voivodeship suffers great injustice in that it cannot keep its subjects in their villages, who used to flee on a whim to Podolia and Ukraine, and those who fled several dozen miles away are barely legally vindicated. So they will bring in JW. the deputies will strongly insist that in no estates or slobodas in Podolia and Ukraine, or in settled villages, any peasant who has escaped or has not been freed from serfdom will be admitted sub poena mille marcarum, and in contravenientes of the future constitution, neither respect succubiti rigoris superius expressi nor the surrender of a runaway peasant after the prescribed arrest in this district that is, the land where the fugitive serf was located, the forum of the land or county from which the serf had escaped, according to the old constitutions, the defendant's peremptorie was designated to answer.

20. The nobility is harmed by the alienation of the goods of the nobility to the clergy, which the clergy in contrarium to the former constitutions through collusion

he acquires obligations with heirs and possessors of cession estates by spending the supra praetium sums of the estate; instabunt JW. deputies, that the former laws should be reasummantured and every nobleman should be allowed to have such goods vidicare rehabitionem, having paid the dimidium praetii bonorum ']as he wishes to have the right

21. The unbearable weight of wyderkaffs in the cities of our province in Lviv and Przemyśl has already reduced the once ornate tenement houses and houses to ruins, some of them have been razed to the ground; they will ask JW. MPs, that this gravamen should be abolished in order to relieve and restore freedom to the citizens of cities and that in posterum the clergy of houses and tenement houses should burden the legacy with sums and not dare to sub nullilate the inscriptions of wills et modo quovis transactions.

22. Nevertheless, earthly goods endure the burden due to the increased provision from the clergy's sums seven out of a hundred, and therefore they will strive for JW. Members, that such a provision ad practicatam in the Krakow and Sandomir provinces quantitatem semel pro semper be reduced, non obstantibus annis calamitatis, and in this way justice will be maintained between the clerical and secular states.

23. Desideria, famous for his distinguished achievements in our homeland, the house of JW. Leduchowskis in the previous instructions, as well as W. Łubek, lieutenant of the armored sign, as well as IMci Mr. Słoński, vice-gerent Łukowski, in the same instructions, promoted by JW. We recommend members of parliament to the estates of the Republic of Poland; also the desiderium of W. Franciszek Szeptycki, cup-bearer of the Lviv land, heir of the third part of the village of Szeptyc in respect of the commutation previously claimed by the same W.Pan Szeptycki and in a previous instruction explanated to JW. envoys to the Most Serene King of the Empire and the Estates of the Republic of Poland submitted requests, we beseech you.