252 ANARCHIA
disrupt the Diets ... we, as loyal subjects commend our envoys before all else to express
our sympathy to this Royal Majesty, Our Gracious King, and to wish him a long and suc-
cessful reign...
- As it is through frequent, unfounded, and illegal vetoes that Sessions of the Sejm
have been dissolved, to the Republic's detriment, we order our envoys to find a
means of limiting such vetoes by law... - Further, our envoys are to beseech His Majesty to approve the Treaty at Legonice
- Since we cannot afford to raise back-pay for soldiers serving the Republic on credit
out of taxes, our envoys will propose these measures: - First that the colonels, captains-of-horse, foreign officers etc. postpone their claims,
on a surety from the Treasury; - Second, that the crown jewels be inventoried, and pawned;
- that priests, bishops, abbots, and curates prove themselves true sons of the land,
and pledge a voluntary subsidy; - that Customs and Excise, sales taxes, and the Jewish poll-tax be doubled;
- that the Army officers surrender their pay for the benefit of the common soldiers;
- that something be done to pay off the debt to his Highness, the Prince of
Brandenburg; - that the Prince of Kurland retain the city of Piltyn...
- that the wishes of our brothers from Livonia, whose estates are devastated, be
satisfied... - that the unresolved debt from 1662 be paid to the Orsettis... or a suitable security;
- Our envoys shall press to have the Mint closed, and its dyes destroyed; and...
- press also for the trials of Boratini and Tymff...
- that the administrators of the customs and excise prepare their accounts for inspec-
tion... - that His Majesty fix the prices of cloth and other things, whose insufferable costs
burden the Republic... - that the foreign ambassadors who have tarried here so long be dismissed. ..
- that no private emissaries be sent abroad, without permission...
- Whereas our province has been ravaged more than any other by the movements of
the royal and confederate armies, that Our envoys plead for our taxes to be post-
poned ad feliciora temporal - that at least one Hetman be always present in the Army, in the cause of discipline,
- that absentee officers... forfeit their pay...
- that native szlacbta be permitted to serve in foreign armies;
- that His Grace, the Bishop of Chelm ... be awarded a second abbey, regardless of
the law against plurality... - that Alexander Zaluski, Chamberlain of Rawa, be suitably compensated for his vil-
lages in the Palatinate of Smolensk-Pavlovo, Shapoli, Borodino... now overrun
by the confounded Muscovites ... - that the devastated city of Rawa ... be exempt from taxes...
- that the land leased from Pan Piotr Sladkowski for a hospital be granted the privi-
lege of ecclesiastical law, as requested by the vicar of Budiszowice...