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are to laſt perpetually, or for a fixed period. Thus having inſured to the proprietors every advantage they have a right to from their villagers, and willing to encourage moſt effectually the population of our country, we publiſh and proclaim a perfect and entire liberty to all people, either who may be newly coming to ſettle, or thoſe who, having emigrated, would return to their native country; and we declare moſt ſolemnly, that any perſon coming into Poland from whatever part of the world, or returning from abroad, as ſoon as he ſets his foot on the territory of the Republic, becomes free and at liberty to exerciſe his induſtry, wherever and in whatever manner he pleaſes, to ſettle either in towns or villages, to farm and rent lands and houſes, on tenures and contracts, for as long a term as may be agreed on; with liberty to remain, or to remove, after having fulfilled
