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Rh. Establishment of a free Labor Bureau for emigrants in Castle Garden, under the care and direction of a German official.

. Appointment of a committee to deliberate upon the question whether it would be advisable and feasible to extend the activity of the Society so far as to establish an exchange business in connection with the Society and under the direction of the Board of Directors.

1868. . The report of the committee on the establishment of an exchange business, recommended by the Board, is adopted by the general meeting.

. A Finance Committee is appointed to elaborate the resolutions passed at the general meeting with regard to the extension of the sphere of the Society and present them as soon as possible.

. Removal to the new office, 17 and 19 Broadway. Establishment of the new department, the banking and passage business, under the direction of the Finance Committee.

At the close of the year the eight months show a net gain of $810.81, which forms the nucleus of a Reserve Fund. (The Reserve Fund of the Banking Department, at the close of the year 1883, amounted to $46,000.)

1869. . The office of the Society is removed to 13 Broadway.

1870. . His Majesty, the King of Prussia, grants to the German Society an annual contribution of £250.

Willy Wallach, in consequence of his appointment as Commissioner of Emigration, resigns his office as First Secretary of the Society.

. A committee is appointed to participate in the erection of a Steuben monument in Steuben County.

1871. . The Board resolve to take part, as the representatives of the German Society, in the procession of April 10th, in celebration of the peace between Germany and France and the restoration of the German Empire.

. Willy Wallach reports that he has succeeded in causing two emigrant swindlers to be sentenced to five years' imprisonment.