book 3. i f any complaints ill all be urged againft the great or
„ .little generals for not fulfilling the articles.prefcribed under
the title of “ The great generals of both nations,” the ac-
cufed, if members of the permanent council, ihall not be
prefent at the difcuffion of the faid complaints.
D e p a r t m e n t IV.
The Great Chancellors of both Nations.
1. Each great chancellor, or his colleague the vice-chancellor
occupying his place, ihall have a committee compofed
of two fenators, and four perfons of the equeftrian order, to
be chofen during the fitting of the diet by ballot, according
to the form prefcribed in the permanent council, &c.
2. Each of thofe minifters ihall be bound to at leaft fix
months refidence at Warfaw, upon the aflignment of falaries,
and each commiilioner or afleflor to at leaft four months;
that the requifite number of three perfons, including the
great chancellor, or vice-chancellor, may be prefent at each
meeting..
Thefe aflefibrs ihall receive each 6000 florins per annum,
- £ 16 6 . 1 3J-. 4d. and thefe falaries ihall be divided between
the aflefibrs who attend.
3. No member of the equeftrian order in this committee
can be elected nuntio of the next diet, &c.
4. Every month the chancellors ihall fend to the permanent
council a lift of all the privileges, which have pafled the
feal.
5. The feals ihall remain in the hands of the great and
vice-chancellors. The chancellor and vice-chancellor of
the crown ihall feal, as before, the privileges referved to the
king, and thofe of Lithuania ihall, in the fame manner, feal
the privileges of that duchy, 8cc.
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6. The great chancellors and vice-chancellors, in cafe of ch a p .
non-compliance with any of thefe articles, ihall be liable to , Vl .
be cited by the permanent council before the diet.
7. In all other points the chancellors are maintained in
their antient privileges, not contradictory to thefe articles
juft enumerated.
D e p a r t m e n t V.
Great Treafurers of both Nations.
1. The department of the treafury, compofed of members
of the permanent council, ihall receive from the committee
of the treafury of the crown the lifts o f the ordinary
expences, &c. and ihall take care that the receipts and expenditures
are authorized by the laws.
2. Every month the great treafurer of the crown, and the
great treafurer of Lithuania, ihall fend a report o f all the
tranfactions of this department to the permanent council, 8cc.
3. Whenever one or both the great treafurers are elected
members of the permanent council, the firft in rank ihall
prefide in this department, compofed of the members of the
permanent council..
4. The commiflioners o f the treafury ihall receive, and,
upon proper deliberation, admit or rejet all memorials and
plans relative to commerce, the augmentation of the revenues,
the eftabliihment of manufactures, cleanfing rivers,
cutting canals, forming harbours, making bridges and high
roads, erecting buildings, and all other public works, 8cc.
always under the controul of the permanent council.
5- The commiflioners of the two nations Ihall pay from
the public funds, deftined for that purpofe, the extraordinary
expences and gratifications, in compliance with the refolu-
tions of the permanent council in pleno, 8cc.
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