Author: SMOLEŃSKI Władysław
Title: Jan Dekert. The president of old Warsaw and the municipal affair during the Great Sejm.
- Place of issue: Warsaw
- Year of publication: 1912
- Publisher: The publishing house of the Society of History Lovers
- Number of pages: 112
- Illustrations, maps: illustrations on separate plates.
- Size: 21.5 cm
- Binding: hardback with gilt lettering on spine, bookmark in form of ribbon
- Condition: minor rubbing of binding, outdated stamps
- ISBN: ---
Description:
Contents include:
- Warsaw magistrate's attitude toward the Sejm at the time of Dekert's appointment as president: efforts to oust Jews from the capital, Swiniarski's municipal program.
- The first steps of the magistrate in the matter of convening delegates to Warsaw from the cities of the Republic.
- Publicity of the magistrate, triggered by the appointment of the Sejm Deputation to improve the form of government.
- The role of Marshal Malachowski and Kollataj in the matter of convening the deputies.
- The convention of the delegates.
- Manifestation of the bourgeoisie on the anniversary of the coronation of Stanislaw August.
- The municipal issue in parliamentary discussions.
- Polemic of the Warsaw magistrate with castellan Jezierski.
- Dekert remains at the presidency for a second year without election, by the will of the people.
- Pogrom and parliamentary discussions.
- Dekert's death.
