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Rh 1872.. At the general meeting held this day, the motion, recommended by the Board, to alter the existing system of the care of the sick by volunteer physicians, was adopted, and a resolution passed for the appointment of salaried physicians. Further, the representation of physicians and apothecaries in the Board was abolished, and the number of members of the latter reduced from 18 to 14.

1873. . At the general meeting held this day, the sum of $10.00, instead of $5.00, was fixed as the minimum of the annual dues, while the admission fee of $5.00, hitherto required, was abolished. It was further ordered that the annual dues shall be paid at the beginning of the year.

. The "United American German Emigrant Society," founded by Dr. S. Ehrenberg as President, and M. Mandl as Treasurer, and consisting of these two individuals, is pronounced a fraud, and the public warned against it.

In lieu of the former Commissioners of Emigration, six Commissioners are appointed in May by the Governor, who, with the Mayor of the City and the Presidents of the German and Irish Societies, form the body of the Commissioners of Emigration. By this new law, in spite of the energetic protests of the Board to the Governor and the Legislature, the two Presidents were deprived of the right of vote in the appointment and removal of employes of the Emigrant Commission.

1874. . At the suggestion of the Board a mass meeting is held in the large hall of Cooper Institute, with an immense attendance of German citizens and societies, for the purpose of protesting against the unbecoming treatment of the President of the German Society, in his capacity of ex officio member of the Emigrant Commission, by the majority of the Commissioners.

. The Board passes resolutions of condolence on occasion of the death, on October 29th, of Leopold Von Bierwirth, former President of the German Society, and its first representative in the Emigrant Commission, which was created chiefly through his efforts.

In consequence of the decrease in emigration and the