„Urządzenie gmin i wójtów” w konstytucyjnym Królestwie Polskim. Część II: Finalizacja – okoliczności przyjęcia postanowienia z 30 maja 1818 r.
The ‘Establishment of communes and wójts’ in the Congress Kingdom of Poland. Part II: Finalization – circumstances of the enactment of the decree of May 30, 1818

Summary/Abstract: The article is the second and last part of a publication (part I in Studia z Dziejów Państwa i Prawa Polskiego 2021, vol. 24) devoted to the reconstruction of the events that led to the issuance of decree Urządzenie gmin i wójtów (Establishment of communes and wójts) of May 30, 1818. This legal act shaped the organization of rural communes in the Kingdom of Poland for several decades, until the act of February 19, 1864. The part II of the article is devoted to the analysis of the content of the debate on the draft prepared in May 1817 and the counter-proposal presented by the president of the Mazovian Voivodeship Commission Rajmund Rembieliński. Both drafts were rejected. After a one-year break (related to the involvement of the Council of State in the work on the bills for the Sejm of 1818) the new project was agreed upon. The fundamental problem of how to exercise effective administrative supervision over the activities conducted by commune heads has not been solved.

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