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6. Quinto public and external and internal security by fortifying the borders with a strong guard by providing fortresses, praesidia, cacauses with cannons and all ammunition armis defensivis et offensivis, by strengthening artillery, by providing a larger number of armed soldiers in addition to a small regiment and corps. If it seemed so, the Rzpty would be able to restore the fian's infantry, which previously numbered four thousand, and these soldiers were useful in the most necessary occasions, especially on the march, for all artillery services, and at no expense to the Rzpta, because each soldier was equipped with an ordinary uniform and a beard from the fians' estate, and the present regiment, although in a small unit, costs a lot and a considerable he became the cause of the devastation of the country. External security in fortitudine armorum depends entirely on the strengthening of forces and ordinary defense, so that after so many experiences

1 Józefa Bobowski, current No. previous, not listed here.

from foreign invasions, immense harm, oppression and violence, when, with God's help, they could stand on stronger legs and be able to resist ad subitos casus. Until which end, due to the exemplary reasons of the Most Serene King of the Lord, to invent thorough measures and increase the reliable regular wages of the army, the first thought should be given.

7. That the rabbis, together with the elders of the synagogues and synagogues in which they daily blaspheme the name of Christ the Lord and curse Christians, should pay according to the proportions of the kahals.

8. This infidel and most treacherous nation, by taking away the trade and the means of life from the Christians, by taking away gold, silver and good coin, and by introducing counterfeit coins, has become very rich, and now, even before the appointed deadline, it does not stop enriching itself by imaginary reduction. Justice demands that their traders should have a precise definition of what goods they can legally trade in, especially since, contrary to so many laws and tribunal decrees, they have dared and still dare to publicly trade and sell wine with adulteration of it to the point of abomination, which makes it an inappropriate material for consecration at the Lord's Sacrifice. For such great courage and contempt of the law, all Jews who traded in horses, oxen and wine should be punished with at least a thousand fines, and henceforth a more severe prohibition with a strong rigor so that no Jew, under any title of protection, should dare to engage in these trades under free confiscation from every delator. The same rigor of a thousand fines is imposed on such Jews as protection in quovis foro competenti to be collected.

9. Lex sumptuaria regarding urban persons et plebeorum to be summarized.

10. Ancient laws respectu indebite usurpati tituli nobilitaris so that they remain in suo robore and they are introduced ad effectum.

11. Taxes, both from the newly adopted Jewish poll tax and from the lustration of quarters, and if also from hibernas, especially in the voivodeships closer to the eastern border, which had previously paid hibernas in figures for devastation, now that the overpopulated ones were obliged by law to pay this fair, these taxes, I mean, with God's help, would be sufficient not only to pay the current army, but also to abolish the tax, or rather the poll tax.

12. The external danger from good harmony and intact friendship with neighboring powers while maintaining and maintaining ancient rights may be assured.