Refuting the charges of minor communities and Jewish settlements from the Volhyn region regarding poll tax overestimation, Szowel Jakubowicz, the rabbi of Włodzimierz and the general scribe of the Crown and Volhyn Jews, justifies himself and Lejba Szmojłowicz, the rabbi of Krzemieniec and second general scribe of the Volhyn Jews. Jakubowicz referred to the general instruction for general scribes [trustees] and an earlier declaration of 30 March 1741, stressing that the competence of general scribes is only to allocate the general (flat-rate) amount of poll tax for the main cities of Volhyn, i.e. Ostróg, Włodzimierz, Łuck, Krzemieniec, Dubno, and Kowel, because the detailed allocation of the tax amount per individual villages was carried out without the intervention of general scribes, by elders from appropriate superior kahals, to whom it is precisely where the aggrieved Jews should address their claims. As an additional argument for his innocence, he cites an example from 1748, when the allocated amount of Jewish poll tax for 1749 was collected by the elders of Włodzimierz Wołyński from their villages and with the consent of the general scribes, without their countersignature. The amount was sent directly to the Crown treasury.

Archive: Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kyiv

Fond: Wlodzimierz castle court files (Księgi grodzkie włodzimierskie)

Reference Number: CGIA Kijów, Fond 28, op. 1, sp. 168, s. 316v-317r

Language: Polish

Creation Date: 24.04.1749

Place of origin: Włodzimierz Wołynski

Geographical names: Dubno, Kovel, Kremenets, Lutsk, Ostroh (Ostróg), Volodymyr-Volynsky (Włodzimierz Wołyński)

Surnames: Lejba Szmojłowicz, Szowel Jakubowicz

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dyspartyment (taryfa) manifestacja ziemstwo wołyńskie