Tuesday, 3 February 1789

Report from the session

Topics: Concerns and risk of uprising in Ukraine; Debate on financial policy and taxation; Discussion of the stamped paper fee project; Discussions about the defense of the country and the necessity to increase armed forces; Discussions on amendments to the stamp tax project and the introduction of taxes in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; Instructions for the envoy to the Viennese court and issues concerning tribunal archives; Opening of the Sejm session by Marshal Stanisław Małachowski; Project to recruit Cossacks for the service of the Republic's army; Proposal of national cavalry recruitment by Michał Walewski; Proposals for establishing fixed revenues for the army;

Wednesday, 4 February 1789

Report from the session

Topics: Appointment of rotmistrzów (cavalry captains) for the national cavalry recruitment; Concerns regarding the town Cossacks and the potential risk of rebellion; Debates on national cavalry recruitment and the ratio of soldiers (towarzysze and rank and file); Differences between the Crown and Lithuania in handling recruitment projects; Jurisdiction and accountability of rotmistrzów (cavalry captains); Loan acquisition for army needs and soldier recruitment; Public treasury finance issues and remaining funds; Recommendations for military commissions regarding recruitment; Transformation of dragoon regiments;

Thursday, 5 February 1789

Report from the session

Topics: Deputies' zeal and duties in military context: discussion of maintaining individual freedom for deputies in relation to rotmistrz (cavalry captains) duties; Infantry vs. cavalry: debate on the proportions and importance of both types of armed forces; Military Commission: references to the commission's work and recommendations; Military fund: discussions on army funding and related spending concerns; Military structure change: recruitment and deployment of troops; Number of soldiers per banner: decision between 100 and 150 heads per banner; Parliamentary legislation: references to laws and parliamentary regulations regarding the creation of projects; reforming dragon regiments into advanced guard regiments; Voting freedom and parliamentary decisions: voting procedures and decision-making, plurality of votes;

Act published 34

Topics: Classification of stamp duty charges; Enforcement of the stamped paper law; Ennoblement and rights of indigenates; Fees for official documents; Increase of revenue from stamped paper; Jurisdiction of the Treasury Commission of the Crown; Noble titles and ecclesiastical benefices; Privileges for offices and dignities; Public revenues; Tax on stamped paper;

Act published 35

Topics: All Secular and Military Posts; Benefice Premiums; Bishoprics and Revenues; Dignitaries and Ecclesiastical and Secular Offices; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; Indigenate and Ennoblement; Official and Order Fees; Orders of the White Eagle and Saint Stanislaus; Paper Stamp; Reservations and Procedural Regulations; Tax on Privileges; Voivodeships and Castellanies;

Friday, 6 February 1789

Report from the session

Topics: Amendments to the Proposal; Armed Forces; Bill Proposal; Captain (Rotmistrz); Military Commission; Military Constitutions; Minister of Defense of Poland-Ukraine Franciszek Branicki; National Cavalry; New Soldier Recruitment; Punishment for Duty Neglect; Rigorous Regulations; Sejm Marshal Stanisław Małachowski; Sejm Session;

Monday, 9 February 1789

No deliberations

Act published 36

Topics: Completing squadrons and regiments; Expansion of national cavalry; Military Commission of Both Nations; Military financing; Military ranks and punishments for non-fulfillment of duties; Protection of citizens from conscription abuses; Recruitment of Tatars; Recruitment ordinances and regulations; Regiments of the vanguard; Transformation of cavalry regiments;

Monday, 16 February 1789

Report from the session

Topics: Address of Marshal Stanisław Małachowski; Bill Proposals; Collaboration with Bankers; Evacuation of Russian Troops; Great Sejm; Health of King Stanisław August Poniatowski; International Treaties; Magistrates; Marshal of the Lithuanian Confederation; Military Commission; Military Oaths; Nobility; Proposition of a New Sejm Session Schedule; Public Sessions; Sums borrowed from abroad by Piotr Tepper;

Wednesday, 18 February 1789

No deliberations

Act published 37

Topics: assignments from the treasuries of both nations; Delegation for foreign affairs; financing of the chancery for foreign affairs; instructions for ambassadors abroad; maintaining correspondence with ambassadors; organization of a chancery for foreign affairs; supervision of negotiations with foreign courts;

Thursday, 19 February 1789

Report from the session

Topics: animosities in the Chamber; communication of diplomatic notes.; defense and security of the state; external threat; foreign influences on Poland; peasant revolt in Ukraine; proposal for militaries call-ups and a Universal for national defense; response to the Holy Father's Breve; Stanisław Małachowski, Marshal of the Sejm; taxes for military establishment; transport of rifles to Smila; weapons revision in Smila;

Friday, 20 February 1789

Report from the session

Topics: Announcement of vote plurality and refusal of secret balloting; Debates on proposals regarding the control of weapon imports into the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania and their sealing; Discussions on ways to secure the country against potential revolts and riots in Ukraine; Proposals for legal changes aimed at punishing individuals hiding information about uprisings;

Monday, 23 February 1789

No deliberations

Act published 38

Topics: border control; disturbances; forage expenses; marshals of the confederation; national military; order commissions; security of Ruthenian voivodeships; treasury commissions; weapons and ammunition;

Wednesday, 25 February 1789

Report from the session

Topics: Adoption of a note and communication to third countries; Evacuation of Russian troops and diplomatic note; Financing of the national cavalry; Foreign loans and financial conventions; Military warehouses on Polish territory; Political neutrality of the Republic; Presidium and secretaries of the Sejm; Protection of citizens' safety; Respect and glory of the Marshal of the Sejm; Taxes and military;

Act published 39

Topics: acquisition of landed property; approval of the convention; Crown Treasury Commission; financial agreement; foreign loan; Karol Schultz; Piotr Tepper; Prot Potocki; ratification of the agreement; Wilhelm Arndt;

Thursday, 26 February 1789

Report from the session

Topics: breach of public trust; changes in law and cancellation of decrees; defense of civic and natural rights; emphyteuses and expectancies; exchange of state properties into hereditary estates; Great Sejm of 1789; internal and external security of the state's borders; necessity of speeding up Sejm proceedings; need for permanent public revenue sources; revocation of Sejm privileges; starosties and royal estates; taxes;

Friday, 27 February 1789

Report from the session

Topics: Consideration of quota amounts and tax payments required from holders of starosties (estates) and emphyteuses; Debate on tax proposals related to the taxation of royal lands, privileged in lifetime tenure; Discussion of potential implications of imposing taxes on different classes of landholders; Objections and amendments submitted to tax projects; Presentation of individual deputies' stances in the context of the tax proposal; Votes on projects and propositions pertaining to taxation;