Ordinance of the Lwów city council regarding anniversary memorial services for the soul of councilor Jan Meconi

The Councilors of His Royal Majesty's City of Lwów, capital of Ruthenia. To all and each one whom it may concern, namely the noble and honorable gentlemen, the provisors of the hospital for the poor at the church under the invocation of the Holy Spirit, situated within the walls of this city, both present and future, we announce and bring to certain knowledge. That we, as the supreme provisors of the Holy Spirit Hospital, having received full information from the report of the noble and honorable Piotr Rusinowski [and] Reinhold Złotorowicz, Lwów councilors, delegated and appointed from our magistracy to receive the account of revenues and expenditures of the administration of the aforementioned hospital, managed by the late noble and honorable Jan Meconi, Lwów councilor, our colleague, from the twelfth day of October in the year one thousand seven hundred and thirty-four to the eighteenth day of the month of August in the year one thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven, and after his death – may his soul be in divine blessing – continued until the present act by the noble [and] distinguished Master Mikołaj Ziętkiewicz, Doctor of Philosophy, Karol Garani, Doctor of Medicine, councilors, and the venerable Antoni Szwarc Scalimon, Lwów citizens, sons-in-law and successors of the same [Meconi]. That the above-named, the late noble Meconi, our dearest colleague, a man of great qualities, learning, pure conscience, famous and exemplary, and generous to the poor, beyond the hospital's income, for the sustenance of the persons residing in the same hospital, for the repair and improvement of the same hospital and the church under the invocation of the Holy Spirit, consumed in the year one thousand seven hundred and thirty-four by an accidental fire from the neighborhood, as well as for the improvement of the property of the village of Malechów incorporated into the said hospital, significantly devastated by the Cossacks, and for the erection of new buildings, laid out from his own [funds] the sum of one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight Polish zlotys, twenty-two and a half groszy, used them profitably for the benefit of the hospital, and performed other pious works selflessly for God and the poor. And because the hospital's income is insufficient for the reimbursement of the aforementioned sum, and it would be unseemly if such acts of piety were not spiritually rewarded with pious offerings of the altar and prayers for the soul, and if they did not lead to expressions of gratitude and the memory of our descendants. Therefore, as compensation for the aforementioned sum of excess expenditures and the completion of that by [...] six and a half zlotys to complete [...] in the sum of two thousand zlotys by the successors of the above [...] for the [remembrance] of the soul of the deceased [...] and the ringing of bells with a sung mass on other mourning days [...] church [...] for the soul of Jan [Meconi?], and this one anniversary memorial service (anniversarium) in the Lwów metropolitan church, where his body rests before our councilor altar, on the day after the feast of Saint John the Baptist or another subsequent day free from the performance of read masses, at which service we, along with our successors, declare to be present. And the second anniversary memorial service in the Holy Spirit hospital church on the day after the feast of Saint Martin the Bishop or another subsequent unobstructed day, after the gathering of Christ's poor residing in the hospital for mourning prayers for his soul, to be performed in the manner of an elevated anniversary by the power of an official entry for all time, we decide and order. Which decision and our declaration, having perpetual force, we order that the noble provisors of the Holy Spirit Hospital, present and future, from year to year on the appointed dates, vigilantly and irrevocably execute and observe from the income of the same hospital, and that the soul shall not be deprived of the prescribed prayers, and we burden their conscience to render a strict account at the judgment of God in case of neglect of our ordinance by this our declaration and ordinance in the above matter. Done in Lwów on Monday, the day after Laetare Sunday of Lent in the year of our Lord 1739. Józef Ruszyński, city notary, councilor and Lwów notary. Issued from the acts of the Lwów council office. [Verso:] [Later archival notes:] Chest 6. No. 5077. [illegible crossed-out numbers / signatures] Polish no. 46 [Round archival stamp at the top] [Seal:] [In a metal capsule, suspended on a silk ribbon, a round city seal of Lwów pressed in red wax with an inscription in the border: SIGILLVM [...] CIVITATIS LEOPOLIENSIS [...], depicting a city gate with three towers and a lion in the gate opening]

Consules Civitatis S[acrae] R[egiae] M[ajes]t[at]is Leopoliensis Metropolis Russiae Universis et Singulis quorum interest, Signanter Nobilibus et Spectabilibus Dominis Provisoribus Hospitalis Pauperum ad Ecclesiam tituli Sancti Spiritus intra Moenia Civitatis istius siti nunc et pro tempore existentibus, Significamus et ad Notitiam indubitatam deducimus. Quia Nos, ut Supremi Provisores Hospitalis Sancti Spiritus habita plena informatione ex Relatione Nobilium et Spectabilium Petri Rusinowski, Reinholdi Złotorowicz Consulum Leopolien[sium] de Medio Magistratus Nostri ad excipiendum Calculam de perceptis ac expensis memorati Hospitalis Provisoratus per olim Nobilem et Spectabilem Joannem Meconi Consulem Leopolien[sem] Collegam Nostrum ab Anno Millesimo Septingentesimo Trigesimo Quarto Die Duodecima Octobris ad diem Decimam Octavam Mensis Augusti Anni Millesimi Septingentesimi Trigesimi Septimi administrati, post fata verò illius, cujus Anima sit in benedictione Divina per Nobiles Excellentes M[agistrum] Nicolaum Ziętkiewicz Philosophiae, Carolum Garani Medicinae Doctores, Consules, et Honoratum Antonium Szwarc Scalimonem, Leopolienses, Generos, et Successores illius ad Actum praesentem continuati, Deputatorum et Assignatorum. Quòd praenominatus olim Nobilis Meconi Collega Noster desideratissimus Vir Magnarum qualitatum, Scientiarum, delicata Conscientia clarus, ac exemplaris, et in Pauperes liberalis, ultrò reditus Hospitalis in alimenta Personarum in Hospitali eodem degentium, Hospitali ac Ecclesia illius tituli Sancti Spiritus in Anno Millesimo Septingentesimo Trigesimo Quarto igne casuali ex vicino superveniente consumptorum reparationem meliorem formam inductionem Bonorumque Villae Malechow dicto Hospitali incorporatorum a Cosacis notabiliter desolatorum meliorationem, Aedificiorum Novorum constructionem Summam Florenorum Mille Nongentorum Triginta Octo, grossorum Viginti Duorum et medij Polonicalium, de proprijs erogavit, fructifera in rem Hospitalis reddidit, alias pia opera gratis pro Deo et pauperibus praestitit. Cùm verò ad refusionem praefata Summa proventus Hospitalis non sufficiat, indignum autem esset, si actus pietatis Spiritus devotis Sacrificijs Altaris et Suffragijs Animae non compensarentur, ac monumentis affectus et grata memoria Posterorum Nostrorum non tenderentur. Proinde in bonificationem Summae praemenoratae plus expensis et additamenti illius Florenorum [...]orum sex et medij ad Complacen[tiam] [...] in Summa Florenorum Duorum Millium per Successores prae[...] [memo]rationem Animae defun[cti] [...] ac pulsus campanarum cum Missa cantata alijs diebus requiati[bus] [...]leni[en]sis Ecclesia pro Anima Joan[nis] [Meconi?], et quidem Unum Anniversarium in Ecclesia Metropolitana Leopolien[si] ubi Corpus illius decumbit ante Altare Nostrum Consulare in Crastino Festi Sancti Joannis Baptistae vel alia Sequenti Die ac celebran[dum] Missas manuales non impedita, Cui et Nos cum Posteris Nostris adesse declaramus. Alterum Anniversarium in Ecclesia Hospitalis Sancti Spiritus in Crastino Festi Sancti Martini Episcopi vel alia Die Sequenti non impedita congregatis Christi Pauperibus in Hospitali degentibus ad funereas pro Anima ejus preces celebranda esse per modum Anniversarij Majorationani in vim Inscriptionis Officiosa in perpetuum Statuimus et ordinamus. Quam Ordinationem et Declarationem Nostram vim perpetuae firmitatis habituros, ut Nobiles Provisores Hospitalis Sancti Spiritus nunc et pro tempore existentes de Anno in Annum temporibus statutis vigilate et irremissibiliter de proventibus ejusdemque Hospitalis exequantur, et observent, praescriptisque Suffragijs Anima non defraudetur obligamus, et Conscientias Ipsorum pro reddenda Stricta in Judicio Dei ratione in casu indermissidinis Ordinationis Nostrae oneramus hac declaratione et Ordinatione Nostra ad praemissa mediante. Actum Leopoli Feria Secunda in Crastino Dominicae Laetare Quadragesimalis Anno D[omi]ni 1739. Josephus Ruszynski N[otari]us Civit[atis] Consul et Notarius Leopolien[sis] Ex Actis Officij Consularis Leopolien[sis] Extraditum [Verso:] [Późniejsze noty archiwalne:] Arca 6ta N: 5077. [nieczytelne przekreślone cyfry / sygnatury] Polonici No 46 [Okrągły stempelek archiwalny u góry] [Pieczęć:] [W metalowej kapsule, zawieszona na jedwabnej wstędze, wyciśnięta w czerwonym wosku okrągła pieczęć miejska Lwowa z napisem w otoku: SIGILLVM [...] CIVITATIS LEOPOLIENSIS [...], przedstawiająca bramę miejską z trzema wieżami i lwem w prześwicie bramy]