§8. Assistance shall be assigned

1. From the interest of the endowment provided by the founders of the fund.

2. From the interest of other endowments obtained by the fund.

3. From the annual fees of members (sec. 4).

4. From contributions made expressly for this purpose.

§9. Assistance may be granted in single payments or in periodic payments for one or more, at most three, years (not excluding the admissibility of repeated grants).

Not more than one-half of the income indicated in section 8 shall be used annually for periodic grants.

Periodic grauts shall cease before lapse of the time for which they were granted as soon as the grantees cease to need them.

V. ADMINISTRATION OF THE FUND.

$10. The relief fund shall be administered by the executive committee of the Professors' Widows and Orphans' Pension Institute whether or not the members of this committee are members of the relief fund.

$11. The provisions of the statutes of July 26, 1889, of the institute, designated in §10 and added as appendix to these statutes, shall apply to the administration of any relief fund, under approval of the minister of religious, educational, and medical affairs.

VI. GENERAL MEETINGS.

$12. The general assembly consists of all the members of the fund. The executive committee ($10) shall preside in the assembly.

$13. For general meetings the provisions of §§ 21 to 23 of the statutes of July 26, 1889, indicated in §11, shall apply.

VII. AMENDMENTS OF STATUTES.

$14. The statutes can be amended only by called general meetings. The adoption of resolutions shall require a majority of three-fourths of the members present. Adopted amendments require the approval of the minister of religious, etc., affairs.

The above statutes of the "relief fund" of the Royal Frederick William University, of Berlin, are hereby approved on the basis of the ministerial decree of September 29, 1833 (G. S., p. 121), with the proviso that

1. At least 10 per cent of the income of the "relief fund" be applied to the increase of its endowment fund.

2. That amendments of the statutes shall require, in addition to the approval of the minister of religious, etc., affairs, also that of the minister of the interior.

Berlin, March 10, 1890.

[L. S.]

Minister of religious, educational, and medical affairs,

VON GOSSLER.

Minister of the Interior, per—

LODEMAN.

2. THE ROYAL RHENISH FREDERICK-WILLIAM UNIVERSITY OF BONN. By the approval of the statutes, on March 28, 1822, an institution for the care of widows and orphans was inaugurated for the University of Bonn. According to these statutes, and the additions made to them under the dates of April 24. 1831, and June 20, 1855, all ordinary and extraordinary professors, as well as the librarians and the prosector of the university of equal rank with the extraordinary professors, are ex officio members of said institution, while the university instructors that occupied professorships only as secondary office and the nonsalaried extraordinaries are excluded from membership.

The annual membership fee was 96 marks; the annual pension of the widow of a member was 1,080 marks, while the surviving orphans (having lost one or both parents) received annual stipends of 270 to 1,080 marks.

Since April 1, 1889, the following statutes, approved by the minister of relig ious, educational, and medical affairs, under date of December 2, 1889, have been in force.

Statutes of the Professors' Widows and Orphans' Pension Institute of the Royal Rhenish Frederick-William University of Bonn.

I. MEMBERSHIP.

§1. Membership of the Professors' Widows and Orphans' Pension Institute at the University of Bonn shall be subject to the following provisions:

1. All professors (including emeritus professors) that occupy a professorship with salary from the exchequer of the university are ex officio members of the institution and shall continue as such during the continuance of said occupancy. 2. Professors who do not occupy a professorship salaried from the exchequer of the university, but who were members at the time of the adoption of these statutes, retain their rights as members during the continuance of their connection with the university.

3. Persons not designated under section 1 can not become members of the institution.

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II. ALLOWANCES OF THE RELICTS OF MEMBERS.

§§2 to 8. The same as on page 135.

III. DISCONTINUANCE OF FEES.

$9. Members that have obtained membership after the adoption of these statutes shall not pay entrance or other fees, nor, respectively, give drafts for the former.

IV. TRANSITION REGULATIONS.

$10. The regulations of §§ 2, 3, and 5 to 8, clause 1, apply also to the relicts of those who may be members at the time of the adoption of these statutes if these members, in a written declaration to be handed to the executive committee of the institution on or before January 1, 1890, renounce for their prospective relicts all claims that might accrue to them in acordance with the statutes heretofore in force; provided, however, that the director of the library and judge of the university shall hold rank with ordinary professors and the prosector and the questor with extraordinary professors.

Otherwise the provisions of the statutes heretofore in force shall apply to the relicts of these members.

$11. The obligation to pay fees on the part of those who were members at the time when these statutes took effect shall cease; the entrance fees, respectively the drafts for the same, shall be returned.

The regulations of clause 1 shall not apply to members whose possible future relicts may have claims upon widows and orphans' pensions under the imperial law of April 20, 1881 (Rg.-Bl., p. 85), or of the Prussian law of May 20, 1882. (GS., p. 298.)

$12. As above, page 136.

V. PRIVILEGES OF THE INSTITUTION.

§13. As above, page 136.

VI. PROPERTY OF THE INSTITUTION.

$14. The property of the institution heretofore in its possession shall remain under its control, as well as the statutory annual contribution of 1,500 marks by the state.

The income from its property, in so far as the donors of gifts and legacies have not made other dispositions, shall be applied exclusively in defraying the statutory expenses of the institution.

Allowances assigned to the institution by the state, in accordance with provisions for securing the solvency of university institutions for the pensioning of widows and orphans, shall be added to the income of the institution from its property.

$15. The capital of the institution shall be invested, with the approval of the curator of the university, on security or mortgages, or eventually, in so far as this can not be done safely, in the purchase of interest-bearing bonds in which the money of wards can be legally invested.

VII. ADMINISTRATION OF THE INSTITUTION.

§§16 and 17. As above.

§18. The annual report shall be received by two auditors, under direction of the rector and the two directors, and then forwarded,with the report of the executive committee, to the curator of the university for inspection and ultimate discharge.

$25. These statutes shall take effect on the 1st of April, 1889.

On this day the statutes of March 28, 1882, together with all subsequent amendatory provisions of the same, shall cease to have effect, in so far as they are not kept in force by §§10 to 12.

3. THE ROYAL UNIVERSITY OF BRESLAU.

By the Government decree of March 28, 1822, a separate institution for the care of widows and orphans was established for the University of Breslau. All ordinary and extraordinary professors became ex officio members of the institution. There were excluded, however, the Catholic clergy, the instructors that occupied professorships as secondary offices and nonsalaried extraordinaries.

The annual membership fee was 72 marks, for which widows received an annual pension of 1,200 marks and surviving orphans (full and half orphans) annual stipends of 300 to 1,100 marks.

Since April 1, 1889, the following statutes, approved by the minister of religious, educational, and medical affairs, under date of September 19, 1889, have been in force:

Statutes of the Professors' Widows and Orphans' Pension Institute of the Royal University of Breslau.

I. MEMBERSHIP.

$1. Membership of the Professors' Widows and Orphans' Pension Institute established for the professors of the University of Breslau since Jaunary 1, 1822, shall be under the following provisions :

Nos. 1 to 3, as above, page 135.

II. ALLOWANCES OF THE RELICTS OF MEMBERS.

$$2 to 8. As above, page 135.

89. As above, page 135.

III. DISCONTINUANCE OF FEES.

IV. TRANSITION REGULATIONS.

$10. As given above, except the date of limitation, which is changed to December 1, 1889, and the proviso of the first section, which reads: "Provided, however, That the questor and the secretary of the university shall hold rank with the extraordinary professors."

$11. The obligation to pay fees on the part of those who were members when these statutes took effect shall cease; the entrance fees paid in accordance with §§ 5 and 6 of the statutes of March 28, 1822, respectively, the drafts issued therefor shall be returned.

The remainder of this paragraph as above.

$12. As above, page 136.

V. PRIVILEGES OF THE INSTITUTION.

$13. As above, page 136.

VI. PROPERTY OF THE INSTITUTION.

§14. The property of the institution heretofore in its possession, as well as the statutory annual contribution of 3,000 marks by the State, shall remain under its control. The income from such property shall be applied exclusively for the statutory expenses of the institution, in so far as the donors of gifts and legacies have not made other dispositions.

Allowances assigned to the institution by the State, in accordance with provisions for securing the solvency of institutions for the care of widows and orphans at universities, shall be added to the income of the institution from its property.

The "Schmidt, fund " and the "Von Hackemann fund" shall continue as heretofore. The income from these funds shall be applied in accordance with the provisions of the funds," and shall be to persons entitled to its benefits, in addition to other amounts due them in accordance with these statutes.

§15. Capital shall be placed at interest on securities or mortgages with the approval of the curatorium of the university.

In so far as this may not be feasible, interest-bearing bonds shall be acquired in which the money of wards can be invested in accordance with existing legal provisions.

VIL ADMINISTRATION OF THE INSTITUTION.

§16. The administration of the institution shall be conducted according to the provisions of these statutes and in accordance with further detailed provisions to be ordered by the minister of religious, etc., affairs and by the minister of finance, as well as in accordance with instructions by the minister of religious, etc., affairs.

The executive committee shall consist of the rector and two directors.

The current business shall be managed by the two directors, under the supervision of the rector.

In judiciary matters the executive committee shall procure the advice of the university judge.

$17. As above, page 136.

$18. This annual report shall be received by two auditors, under the direction of the rector, in connection with the two directors, and then forwarded with the report of the executive committee to the curatorium of the university for inspection and final discharge.

In addition to the general institution for the care of widows and orphans there exists at the University of Breslau in favor of professors' widows also the two funds mentioned in §14 of the above statutes, viz:

1. The Schmidt fund for pensioning professors' widows.

2. The Von Hackemann fund for pensioning professors' widows.

The first of these funds was provided by a famulus or bedel at the former University of Frankfort on the Oder, and was established for the benefit of widows of ordinary professors. It amounts at present to 3,850 marks.

The Von Hackemann fund was provided by Professor of Jurisprudence Von Hackemann, who died on July 30, 1784. The property of the fund consists of real estate in the circuit of Quedlingburg, occupying an area of 36 ha. 42 a. 28 gm., and made productive by renting. In accordance with the provisions of the legacy the income is to be distributed among the widows of ordinary professors and the syndicus of the university.

Both funds having passed from the former University of Frankfort on the Oder to the University of Breslau, or respectively transferred, under §39 of the plan of union of August 3, 1811, to the combined University of Breslau, are administered by the exchequer of the University of Breslau distinct from the Institution for the care of widows and orphans.

4. THE ROYAL GEORGE-AUGUSTUS UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN.

The "fund for professors' widows" of Göttingen, existing until April 1, 1889, was administered finally in accordance with the statutes of February 6, 1857, drawn up by the Royal University curatorium of Hanover and amended partially by a ministerial decree of September 14. In accordance with these statutes, every ordinary and extraordinary professor drawing a salary from the exchequer of the university was entitled to become a member of said fund from the time of his appointment. Membership was not compulsory. The annual membership fee was 60 marks. Widows received a fixed annual pension of 800 marks and an additional amount from the surplus of the fund, amounting, in the year 1888, to 440 marks.

Since April 1, 1889, the following statutes, approved by the minister of religious, etc., affairs, under date of December 12, 1889, have been in force:

Statutes of the Professors' Widows and Orphans' Pension Institute of

Göttingen.

1. MEMBERSHIP.

$1. The following regulations shall apply to the membership of the Professors' Widows Fund of the University of Göttingen, which shall take the name of Professors' Widows and Orphans' Pension Institute:

2. No other persons except those designated under $1 can become members of the institution.

II. ALLOWANCES TO RELICTS; AND HI. DISCONTINUANCE OF FEES.

$$2 to 9. As above, page 135 (Berlin).

IV. TRANSITION PROVISIONS.

$10. The regulations of §§ 2, 3, and 5 to 8, clause 1, apply also to the relicts of those who may be members at the time these statutes shall take effect, if these members, in a written declaration, to be handed to the executive committee of the institution on or before January 1, 1890, renounce for their prospective relicts all claims that might accrue to these in accordance with the statutes heretofore in force. Otherwise the regulations of the statutes heretofore in force shall apply to these relicts.

$11. As above, page 136 (Berlin).

$12. As above, page 136, with the following additions:

These relicts may, however, request, in a written petition to be handed to the executive committee on or before January 1, 1890, that they be granted, instead of these pensions, the widows and orphans' allowances, in accordance with §§ 3 to 8.

At present the establishment of a relief fund for the relicts of teachers and officials of the University of Breslau is under discussion with prospect of an early conclusion. Paragraphs not printed agree literally with the corresponding paragraphs of the statutes of Berlin (pp. ff.).