God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 1. The Origins to 1795

(C. Jardin) #1
mk./gr./d.
Livestock: Milking cows (30) at 2 zl., makes 37 24 0
sterile cows (2); common cattle (40); calves (8); fattened hogs (8); common sows (60); capons (11);
domestic chickens (30).
(Mr Pieniaiek maintained that the cattle were his private property, since there were none on the
estate when he took over the lease. For the time being, however, the Commission decided to record
what they found.)

Domestic Staff: Magierz (peasant foreman) and his wife — 4 mk, plus full maintenance; the cowherd,
and the swineherd, - 1 mk/24 gr. each, with full maintenance; two cooks at 36 gr; one maid at 15 gr.
for shoes.
Total for domestic salaries: 8 39 0
Total Income from cereals, plus livestock, less salaries: 95 3 9
Freemen (wage-earners, or self-employed)
There are 21 freemen who have settled or are in the process of settling unclaimed land in the wilderness in the following
three, new villages, and who exploit the crops there freely according to custom:
— Dunaiecz Bialy: There are six peasants living by the river which flows down on the Polish side of the Tatras into
the lands of Nowy Targ.
— Banska: There are ten peasants living on the Polish side of the road by which one reaches the new mines in the
Tatras built first by Mr Lubomirski and later by Mr Pieniaiek and Kasper Bar.
— Marusina: There is also a village below the Maruszyna Mountain, where three peasants are living, together with
the two officials who reside in the customs house.^12

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