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5 === TITLE II. GENERAL GUARANTEES. ===

XI. The Roman Catholic religion, being professed by the majority of the inhabitants of the kingdom of Poland, the government shall make this religion the object of especial care, without in any degree, derogating thereby from the freedom of other religious sects, which shall all, without exception, have full and public liberty to carry on their respective worship, and shall all enjoy the protection of the government. The different forms of Christian worship, shall occasion no difference in the enjoyment of civil and political rights.

XII. The Ministers of all the different persuasions, shall be under the protection, and under the inspection of the government.

XIII. The property already in the possession of the Roman Catholic Church and of the Greek Communion, and what may hereafter be granted by our special decree, shall be declared inalienable and common to the whole ecclesiastical hierarchy, as soon as the government shall have appointed and assigned to the said clergy, the national domains which are to constitute such benefaction.

XIV. The senate of the kingdom of Poland, shall admit as members, as many bishops of the Roman Catholic Communion, as there may be Palatinates by law appointed. It shall admit also one bishop of the Greek Communion.

XV. The clergy of the confession of Augsburg,