Constitutional Amendments for the Society of the Visitation of the Sick and Mutual Assitance, 1844
- Title
- Constitutional Amendments for the Society of the Visitation of the Sick and Mutual Assitance, 1844
- Contributor
- Isaac Leeser
- Date Created
- March 1844
- Location(s)
- Philadelphia
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- Print. 1 page(s) on 2 sheet(s).
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- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3rb6wn8p/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3rb6wn8p
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- Unlined Paper
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PHILADELPHIA, ADAR5604, MARCH1844.
Mr.
SIR,
A Stated Meeting of the Hebrew will be held on Sunday, the 4th of Nissan, the 24th of March, at 10 o'clock, A. M., at the Vestry Room of the Portuguese Congregation, in Cherry Street.
BY ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT.
Secretary.
pointing hand symbol Balloting for Messrs. Simon Weil and Selig Hohenfels.
The following Amendments to the Constitution and By-Laws, laid on the table at the last Stated Meeting, will come up for action:
“The Committee for revising the Constitution and By-Laws beg leave to offer the following additional Amend-ments:
AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION.
ARTICLE IV. SECT. 1. Strike out after the world “and” “two,” and insert “four.”
ARTICLE XV. After the world “paying” strike out “six” and insert “eight.”
AMENDMENTS TO BY-LAWS.
Make the first paragraph SECT. 1, and let those paragraphs now marked one to nine, be subdivisions of said SECT. 1, and marked a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, and i, respectively; and change the numbering of the remaining sections to corre-spond with this alteration: so SECT. 10 will be 2; 11, 3; 12, 4; 13, 5; and make SECT. 14 and 15 SECT. 6, to read as follows:
“The Board shall at their first meeting after the annual election, and oftener if occasion requires, draw the names of the several members out of a box, to be provided, for the purpose of performing the duties of the watch, which shall be as follows:
“From the first, &c.”
Make SECT. 16, SECT. 7; SECT. 17, SECT. 8; SECT. 18, SECT. 9; and strike out “and in the event of” till “funeral.”
Make SECT. 19, SECT. 10, and let it read, “A messenger shall be appointed by the Board at their first meeting after the annual election, who shall receive such salary as shall be fixed form time to time by them; he shall give satisfactory security to the Board, and shall perform all the duties required of him.”
Make SECT. 20, SECT. 11, and add after the word “messenger” “if a member.”
Make SECT. 21, SECT. 12; SECT. 22, SECT. 13, and alter so as to read: “The Secretary shall make out the bills and hand them to the Treasurer for collection. He shall also record,” &c.
Make SECT. 23, SECT. 14; SECT. 24, SECT. 15, and alter the whole so as to read: “The Treasurer shall at each and every annual meeting exhibit,” &c.
Make SECT. 25, SECT. 16; SECT. 26, SECT. 17; SECT. 27, SECT. 18; SECT. 28, SECT. 19; SECT. 29, SECT. 20; make a new SECT. 21, to read: “In case of the death of a member, every member shall be charged 25 cents for the use of the Society.”
Make SECTS. 30, 31, and 32, SECT. 22, and let it read: “The following fines shall be enforced by the Society, viz.”
Insert the present SECT. 30, next the present SECT. 32, and strike out after “said duties” the words “after consent-ing to serve,” after “serve” in the next paragraph read “notice or attend on meeting,” after Hebrew read “25 cents, and should the,” &c.
All which is respectfully submitted.
ISAAC LEESER, Chairman.
H. POLOCK.
D. PESOA.
HENRY M. PHILLIPS.
JOHN D. JACKSON.”
Philadelphia, Dec. 17th, 5604.
SPECIAL AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BY MR. LEESER.
ARTICLE IV. After the above amendment “four” add “who shall take the duties of the office in rotation; and the person who has been longest in office to be the senior, or if elected at the same time, the one who has the largest number of votes, and if the vote be equal, seniority is to be decided by lot.”
ARTICLE XVII. SECT. 3. Strike out all after the word “Philadelphia.”
Strike out By-law 29.
Make a new section, “If the Board deem it requisite they may appoint an Assistant Secretary, to whom they may give a compensation not exceeding twenty dollars per annum. Such Assistant Secretary need not be a member of the Society.
pointing hand symbolPlease to compare this notice with the printed Constitution in your possession, and bring it with you to the meeting, that you may vote understandingly upon every amendment proposed. Also endeavour not to be absent from the meeting, so that the full sense of the Society may be elicited upon the foregoing amendments.
David Solis
Novbr 25
1.50
Dec 2
.75
? Janry 27
1.40
March 23
.50
Aug 8
1.25
Sept. 21
1.50
Aaron Levy
Novbr 25
27
Dec 2
27
9
40
16
16
30
27
? Jan 13
14
—20
14
febry 3
27
—17
27
March 8
27
20
27
Ap 4-5
14
—27
27
May 4
14
18
27
24-25
40
June 22
27
Aaron Levy
Septr 7
80
14-15
Elias P Levy
Novb 25
40
Dec 2
53
- 30
1-:-
18?febry 10
1.20
March 23
75
May 4
1-:-
4
1-:-
June 15
1
July 13
1.25
Augt 31
1
Octbr 4
67
?
4.25
12
4.50
David Pesoa
Novb 25
53
Dec 23
40
Sept 14.15
80
Jos L Moss
Novbr 25
1
Apr 4.5.6
3
Septr 7
2
14-15
4
23-24
2
D?Juan Biel
25 Novbr
27
9 Dec
27
23 do
14
24 febry
27
13 Ap
27
11 May
27
15 June
20
20 July
14
24 Aug
27
21 Sept
27
Aaron Myers
Novbr 25
40
Dec 23
50
Ap 10-11
75
27
25
John Moss
Dec 2
5
?Sept 23
4
Jacob Levy
Decr 2
27
March
27
Apr 10&11
50
May 18
27
June 29
50
July 27
27
Lazarus Arnold
Decr 2
1.50
Ap 4.56
1.75
David Tobias
Dec 2
67
March 8
53
April 10
14
13
27
May 11
27
Abm I Lutz
Dec 2
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Part of Constitutional Amendments for the Society of the Visitation of the Sick and Mutual Assitance, 1844
Society of the Visitation of the Sick and Mutual Assitance | Isaac Leeser | H. Polock | D. D. Pesoa | John D. Jackson | Henry M. Phillips, “Constitutional Amendments for the Society of the Visitation of the Sick and Mutual Assitance, 1844”, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 20, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/66041