provisions for distribution by the German Relief Association for Sick and Wounded Soldiers, Washington, D. C. During this and the following year, $3713 were collected.
August 10th. Laying of the corner-stone of the new emigrant hospital on Ward's Island.
1865. April 22d. Resolutions of condolence passed by the Board, on occasion of the assassination of the President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.
August 2d. The New York packet "William Nelson," from Antwerp to New York, was burned at sea on June 26th, and of 550 passengers, mostly German emigrants, 478 were lost. The Board appointed a committee, which collected the sum of $526.70, and distributed it among nineteen Germans who had been saved. All those wishing to go to the interior had also their travelling expenses paid.
September 5th. The Patriotic Central Aid Society delivers to the German Society the sum of $452.69, as the surplus of the funds intrusted to it, with the provision that this sum shall be distributed, under the direction of the Charity Committee, among sick or crippled soldiers or their widows and orphans.
1866. January 15th. Resolved, at the general meeting, to allow the apothecaries of the German Society, who furnish medicines at cost, to elect two of its members as their representatives in the Board, as in the case of the physicians of the Society, and to exempt them from the payment of annual dues.
March 7th. The house in Canal Street owned by the Society is sold for $20,000.
May 2d. The government of Würtemberg sends a contribution of $250 gold for the relief of destitute Germans, without regard to the part of Germany of which they are natives.
1867. January 28th. A motion to alter the by-laws of the Society, to the effect that ladies shall be received as members, is rejected by the general meeting.
A motion that the capital of the Society shall not be drawn upon to cover current expenses, and that only the interest thereof shall be used, is adopted.
The Legislature empowers the Emigrant-Commission to raise the head-money for emigrants from $2.00 to $2.50.
