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King Augustus III approves the statute of the bookbinders' confraternity in Lwów, enacted by the city council in 1740, which regulates the organization of the guild, the duties of masters and journeymen, and protects the craft against competition from unauthorized workers.

Justyna Parteynowna, Hegumeness of Chełm, addresses a humble petition to the Ruthenian Voivode Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski, requesting the exemption of her convent from tax burdens and military quartering. She recalls past promises of protection for the monastery and asks for intervention in light of the nuns' exhaustion.

Lviv Archbishop Wacław Hieronim Sierakowski maintains the right of canons to choose chapter estates, while ordering that one-third of the income—and half of the income from the Uniatycze, Pikulowice, and Żydatycze estates—be contributed to the common chapter fund. At the same time, he exempts poorer benefices from this obligation and grants the chapter a remission of all accumulated arrears.

Lviv Archbishop Wacław Hieronim Sierakowski separates the prelacies from the canonries in the metropolitan chapter, and to provide for the newly created prelates and canons as well as to increase daily distributions, he incorporates the village of Czarnuszowice and the reeveships in Kąkolniki and Stawczany into the chapter's estates.

Rector of the Krakow University, Bazyli Płaszczewski, informs the authorities of Lviv about the appointment of Antoni Torczyński as the director of the local academic colony. He explains that sending the candidate was delayed due to the plague in Lviv and expresses gratitude for the councilors' constant kindness towards the Krakow university.

The document of King Stanisław August Poniatowski approves the separation of Lwów clockmakers from the locksmiths' guild and grants them the status of a separate guild. The transumed municipal statute regulates in seventeen articles the issues of apprentices' terms, journeymen's travels, the execution of masterpieces, guild fees, and the suppression of unauthorized craftsmen (partacze).

Emperor Francis I transforms the Lviv Lyceum into a full-fledged university named Universitas Francisca, regulating the institution's structure, the composition of the academic senate, and the faculties' authority to grant doctoral degrees. The document also contains a meticulous heraldic and iconographic description of the newly established seals of the university and its individual faculties.

Abbess Eleonora Potocka asks the President of Lwów, Karol Szmeling, to protect Stefan Laskowski from the legal claims of the Liw cup-bearer, Rosnowski, regarding a tenement house purchased from the convent. She emphasizes that Laskowski acquired the property fully legally and paid all dues, and therefore should not be subject to any judgments.

King Michael Korybut Wiśniowiecki approves two documents of King John II Casimir protecting the Lviv tailors' guild against unauthorized competition. He confirms the ban on sewing and trading clothing and cloth caps by Jews, Armenians, furriers, and persons outside the guild.

King Stanisław August Poniatowski approves and transumes the ordinance of the merchant confraternity of the city of Lwów, enacted by the Lwów municipal council, comprising 37 articles regulating membership rules, trade, the organization of brotherhood authorities, and the protection of the rights of Lwów merchants.

Bishop Teodor Potocki reports current news from Warsaw to the Ruthenian Voivode, mentioning the mood at court, an accident involving the General, and military matters related to the evacuation of Kamianets-Podilskyi. He also reports on the wait for decisions from the Apostolic See, as well as social gossip and planned marriages.

Jan Benedykt Cacciolini explains to Maciej Haider his break in correspondence due to illness and frequent travels, promising to repay a debt of 300 zlotys during his upcoming stay in Lviv. He also informs him about withholding the payment of the remaining balance to the mother of the late apprentice Jan Szmid until the Piotrków trade books are examined.

Szczęsny Czacki sends the Lviv authorities proclamations for publication, as well as letters to the Grand Crown Chancellor and the Grand Crown Hetman requesting military aid for the commission. He recommends sending the correspondence along with the decree to Warsaw via Mr. Czeczewicz.

Crown Cupbearer Szczęsny Czacki sends his proclamation to the Lviv authorities with instructions for its announcement, along with correspondence to the Grand Chancellor and the Grand Hetman of the Crown. He recommends sending the letters to Warsaw via Mr. Czeckiewicz in order to obtain military assistance from the Lviv garrison for the duration of the commission.