Emigrant Commission, and also, in case the Legislature should not in the meantime have remedied the matter, to call a special meeting of the Board in two weeks, for the purpose of consulting on further measures for the protection of emigrants. The necessary legislation was effected in time, and further measures were rendered unnecessary.
June 14th. Report of the receipt of a certified copy of an amended Charter which had passed the Legislature. It authorizes the German Society to sell real estate, and to have a net income of $10,000.
August. Congress passes the Emigration Act, by which the national government imposes on the steamship companies 50 cents head-money for each emigrant. The new law leaves the Emigrant Commission its character as a State Commission, but places it under the control of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the name of the Federal Government. Congress likewise passes the bill introduced by Member of Congress Deuster, of Milwaukee, for an improved arrangement of the steerage in passenger vessels.
1883. A detailed Annual Report of the business of the Society during this, the one hundredth year of its existence, will be found annexed, in the customary form, as heretofore presented to the members and prescribed by the by-laws.
