After the arrival of The President to the Senate and the introduction by Speaker of the Congress Stanisław Małachowski, Secretary Jan Łuszczewski continued reading the draft bill, concerning the establishment of secular clergy seminaries, as well as orphanages and hospitals run by the Bonifratri Friars and Sisters of Mercy, recognizing these institutions as exempt from the recently established tax. etc.

After the bill was read, His Excellency the Bishop of Kyiv argued that his vicars have meager incomes and yet are essential to their parishes, citing many locations within his diocese where a vicar barely makes a hundred or so zlotys annually and cannot decently sustain themselves. Therefore, he requested that they be exempt from taxation.

Prince Janusz Czetwertyński, Senator Castellan of Chernihiv requested that his prior amendment and warning regarding impoverished monasteries that survive solely on provisions and have no income over two thousand zlotys also be exempt from this tax. However, many Representatives were not inclined to agree to such a request.

Representative Jan Krasiński from Podolia supported the just request of Prince Janusz Czetwertyński. Ludwik Gutakowski, starost of Kampinos reiterated his earlier suggestion that idle monastic orders be assigned some form of manual labor for employment. PROGRESS

Concerned about time being wasted on such minor matters, Representative Tadeusz Matuszewicz from Brześć nad Bugiem lamented the delays in key issues such as the establishment of land taxes, military structure, and other matters, urging Speaker Małachowski to call for a vote on the read proposal.

After the bill was read again by Secretary Łuszczewski, Speaker Małachowski asked three times for consent, and despite Prince Czetwertyński's objection to proceed until his motion was considered, he had to relent upon seeing the majority in favor, resulting in unanimous consent. The Secretary then read the continuation of the bill regarding the charitable subsidy formulated by the Bishops for each diocese to ease the burdens of impoverished pastors, which they will henceforth pay into the Royal Treasury in Poland-Ukraine and the Lithuanian Treasury in Lithuania-Belarus. Although there were some dissenting views, they were promptly reconciled, and unanimous consent was given on this point.

Continuing the session, Secretary Łuszczewski read the addition submitted by Representative Józef Mierzejewski from Podolia concerning the sum of four hundred thousand zlotys from Korea, a donation by the Emperor paid out by the Convention, as well as other pending amounts etc. Following the reading and comments on the addition by Representative Mierzejewski, Prince Kazimierz Sapieha, Speaker of the Lithuanian Congress suggested that during Saturday and Sunday, the deputies designated to the Constitution confer with the Bishops Collegium at the residence of Prince Michał Poniatowski, the primate senator, to settle the matter of the mentioned funds. Thereafter, Under Secretary of State Maciej Garnysz adjourned the session until Monday at ten o'clock in the morning.

Topics: legislative proposal; education of priests; tax exemption for religious congregations; income of vicars; monasteries and handcraft; establishment of land taxes; military establishment; subsidium charitativum; Crown and Lithuanian Treasury; imperial donations and financial arrears; Constitution; conferences with the Episcopal Collegium;