February 24th. Gustav Schwab elected President. (Mr. Schwab is at present the oldest living ex-President of the Society.)
March 7th. Reported that the German Liederkranz had offered to give a concert for the benefit of the German Society. (From later reports it appears that the concert took place, and yielded a net gain of $154.00.)
April 1st. Removal of the agency to 179 Canal Street.
April 18th. Rudolph Garrigue was elected salaried President, and the salary fixed at $2500 a year.
May 26th. A collection taken up for the purpose of defraying the salary of the President, realizes the sum of $4050.
June 20th. A banner worked by ladies of Brooklyn is presented to the Society.
August 1st. The old fort "Castle Garden" is opened as a landing-place for emigrants.
The insurance money on the effects of lost passengers by the wrecked ship "New Era," secured to our Society, and amounting to $1839.35, was collected in Bremen and remitted to the Society, which invested it, as a "New Era Fund," with $2000.
1856. February 22d. At the general meeting Wm. Jellinghaus protests against the further payment of a salary to the President, and after a long debate it is resolved that a salaried President shall be elected only in case it should be impossible to induce a suitable person to accept the office without salary.
August 13th. In consequence of the establishment of the emigrant landing-depot at Castle Garden, it is resolved to remove the agency to 85 Greenwich Street, and to let the property of the Society in Canal Street.
September 10th. A committee of the Society's physicians reports in favor of the founding of a German Dispensary, and requests the Society to guarantee $500 for six months for the defraying of expenses. Subsequently, two dispensaries were established: the German Dispensary, 132 New Canal Street, and the New York Dispensary, 69 Fourth Avenue; the Treasurer was commissioned to collect the money which had been subscribed for the dispensary, and transmit it to the Committee of Physicians.
