The rabbis of the Zamość Entailed Estate gathered at the regional council in Łukowa, called by the widow of the Crown treasurer, Anna Franciszka from Gniński Zamoyska, decided: 1) to set the poll tax and tariff tax charged on Jewish male property owners and married tennants as 30,006 zlotys; 2) to exempt from the poll tax rabbis, their children, and sons-in-law who deal with with usury, cantors, syndics, shamesim, the general scribe, and poor Jews receiving alms; the property tax (symplowy) tax depends on the wealth of the Jews; 3) the poll tax registers will be handed over to the Crown scribe and land scribe; 4) to appoint Irsz, a Zamość Jew as the scribe of the Ordynacja; 5) to approve treasury assignments; 6) to stop the repayment of debts until a settlement through the rabbi of Lviv is reached between the Ordynacja Jews and Jews of the Chełm-Bełz region; 7) to set the date (18 May 1701) of the next regional council to arrange new tariffs; 8) in the period between the councils, the jurisdiction in matters between Jews and elders of the kahal will be carried out by a mixed court consisting of a rabbi and an elder ordained by the main kahals of the Ordynacja and a rabbi representing the defendant community; 9) to determine that the elders can not grant a tax exemption without the council of the rabbis of the Zamość Entailed Estate; 10) to set a weekly allowance for elders and rabbis who came to the regional council from the arrival of the marshal; 11-12) to prohibit rural Jews from evading the payment of tax and cattle slaughter, and to order them to go to the city on holy days; 13) to prohibit Jews from moving to other communitiess without obtaining a certificate on tax payment; 14) to resolve to send deputies to Zamość to obtain confirmation from the heiress and to talk to the scribe.

Archive: The State Archive in Lublin

Fond: Sąd Komisarski Zamku Zamojskiego

Reference Number: APL, Sąd Komisarski Zamku Zamojskiego, sygn. 5, s. 22r-25v

Language: Polish

Creation Date: 14.01.1700

Place of origin: Łukowa

Geographical names: Szczebrzeszyn, Tarnogród, Turobin, Zamosc

Surnames: Bieniasz Lewkowicz, Chierc Lewkowicz, Dawid, Irsz, Moszko Irszowicz, Szaja Notowicz, Zamoyska Anna Franciszka z Gnińskich, Zamoyski Marcin

Notes:

sejmik żydowski ziemstwo ordynacji zamojskiej