Rozdwojone wybory urzędników ziemskich na sejmiku elekcyjnym województwa nowogródzkiego 5 lutego 1777 roku

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Antanas Tyzenhauzas; Bajorai; Juozapas Niesiolovkis; Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštystė (LDK; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; GDL); 18 amžius; Naugarduko vaivadija; Pareigūnai; Politinės partijos; Rinkimai; Antoni Tyzenhauz; Election; Elections; Jozef Niesiolowski; Lithuanian XVIII c. history; Noblemen; Nowogrodek Voivodeship; Officers; Political party; The Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

ENOn 3 February 1777 the Nowogród Candlemas diet began its sessions. The sessions were to take place in accordance with the legal norms established at the convocation diet of 1764, according to which election diets to land offices on the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were to take place immediately after the local Candlemas diets, without the need to issue any additional proclamations for their organisation. The elective land offices included, among others, the office of marshal, chamberlain, standard-bearer, land judges, as well as the land scribe. The candidates to the above posts were to be elected by the majority of votes. Moreover, the old law which bade electors to choose from among four candidates to a single office had been done away with. From now on, the constitution introduced the law whereby only one candidate to an office was to be presented and subsequently after his election, confirmed by the royal prerogative. The above legal norms had been confirmed by the coronation diet of 1764 as well as by the Warsaw diet of 1768. At the Nowogród diet, the main struggle had taken place between the supporters of court treasurer Antoni Tyzenhauz, and the Nowogród voivode Józef Niesiołowski. It was judge Michał Krzyszyłowski who stood at the helm of the Tyzenhauz party in the Nowogród province; the latter had supporters among land officials as well as the “Radziwiłł” gentry. Contrary to its opponents, Józef Niesiołowski’s faction did not enjoy a widespread popularity and was supported mainly by urban officials. The voivode was also supported by the Lithuanian deputy chancellor of the treasury Joachim Litawor Chreptowicz. The split in the diet had occurred on 5 February, that is on the third day of sessions, during the election of the following land officials [...]. [From the publication]