304, and above, p.

94.] One might have thought that the Diet had no need of extra measures to "curb" the Jews.

It was quite enough that it tacitly sanctioned the prolongation of the ten years term of Jewish rightlessness which had been fixed by the Government of the Varsovian duchy in 1808.

[1] This term ended in 1818, while the first Diet of the Kingdom of Poland was holding its sessions, but neither the Polish Diet nor the Polish Council of State gave any serious thought to the question whether the Government of the province had a right to prolong the disfranchisement of the Jews.
This right was taken for granted by the Polish legislators who were planning even harsher restrictions for the unloved tribe of Hebrews.
[Footnote 1: Compare Vol.

I, p.