The revamping of the 1990 law to protecting cultural assets has raised the stature of monuments by recognizing them as historical monuments. Work on compiling a list of them was done by the Council for Protection of Monuments acting under the Minister of Culture and the Arts. The first fifteen monuments of our history are mentioned in Monitor Polski, No 50, of September 18, 1994. Representatives of the towns, communities and monasteries mentioned in Monitor received documents from the President of the Republic of Poland confirming the significance of these monuments.