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§ 49. The computer shall see to it that the certificate fees, the entrance fees, and the contributions to the widows' fund, which he shall receive directly from those who owe them, or from the authorities commissioned to collect them, in fixed districts, shall be paid at the proper time. Eventual arrearages he shall, without delay, cause to be collected after three days' warning by executory process, by virtue of the executory power with which the widows' institute is invested generally and without regard to the jurisdiction (Gerichtsstand) of the several members of the institute.

$50. In the event not only that the executory process instituted under § 49 fails to lead to the payment of the widows' institute, but in general if the directory deems it desirable in its interest, the authorized grand ducal ministry shall, upon report of the directory, bring it about that the arrearages and future dues to the widows' institute shall be retained by the respective authorities from the salary or pension of the debtors or from the mortuary gratuities and gratuity quarters (Gnaden-quartale) and remitted to the widows' fund.

With reference to the moneys thus retained the widows' fund precedes unconditionally all other claims, so that these moneys can under no circumstances be withheld or taken away from it.

§ 51. The directory uses in the execution of its papers the seal conferred upon it. The widows' institute fund has also been furnished a seal for its papers. $52. The directory and the widows' institute fund have been invested with the franking privilege within the limits of Mecklenburg-Schwerin for all dispatches and money remittances closed with their seals and furnished with the superscription "Widows' institute matter." Also money remittances and receipts addressed to the widows' institute fund, with the superscription "Widows' institute contributions" and "Widows' institute receipts," respectively, and shall be carried free of postage within the limits of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

All mail matter, however, addressed to the widows' institute, the directory, and the fund thereof, for which freedom from postage has not been allowed, must be stamped on penalty of its return.

$53. Eventual complaints concerning the management of the computer shall be submitted to the directory.

Complaints as to the management, orders, directions, and decisions of the directory, however, are to be made to the authorized grand ducal ministry, whose decision shall be final. Juridical process is not granted in any case. 2. Decree of March 10, 1886, supplementing and modifying the statutes, respectively, for the Widows' Institute for Civil and Military Officials of March 17, 1863, and for the Widows' Institute for Preachers, Organists, etc., of January 21, 1864.

Article I.-The surviving legitimate children or children legitimized by subsequent marriage of a member belonging at the time of his death to the Widows' Institute for Civil and Military Officials or to the Widows' Institute for Preachers, Organists, etc., shall receive, in the event if there is present no widow entitled to the payment of the widow's pension insured for the member, from the fund of the widows' institute to which their father belonged, orphans' pension under the following provisions:

§ 1. The orphan's pension shall carry for each child one-third of the pension which was insured to the father at the time of his death for his eventual widow. § 2. The orphan's pension in the presence of several children entitled to payment shall not exceed the widow's pension insured to the member at the time of his death.

In applying this provision the orphans' pensions shall be proportionately reduced.

§3. On the elimination of one of the orphans entitled to pension, the orphans' pensions of the remaining claimants shall be increased, beginning with the next following quarter, in so far as they are not as yet in the full enjoyment of the amounts due them under § 1.

§ 4. The payment of the orphans' pensions shall begin with the end of the gratuity period, respectively, with the end of the time for which the widow's pension has been paid to a surviving widow of the respective member.

$5. Orphans' pensions shall be paid quarterly in advance.

86. The claim to the payment of orphans' pensions shall become extinct1. For each claimant with the end of the quarter in which he dies or is married;

2. For each orphan, moreover, with the end of the quarter in which he or she shall complete the eighteenth year of life.

§ 7. The right to the payment of orphans' pension shall be suspended1. If the claimant loses German citizenship, until its eventual recovery; 2. If before this decree shall take effect the claimant shall have been allowed gratuity pension from the fund of the sovereign to the amount of such gratuity pension and during the time of such allow

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§ 8. The request for payment of orphans' pension shall be made to the directory of the widows' institute liable for payment by the guardianship, which shall establish its legitimacy and submit the certificates of birth of the orphans entitled to payment.

§ 9. In addition to the above provisions, the provisions of the statutes of the two widows' institutes shall have corresponding application.

Article II.-For Appendix A of the statutes of the Widows' Institute for Civil and Military Officials of March 17, 1863, Appendix A of this decree shall be substituted.

Article III. The present decree shall take effect on the day of its promulgation with the proviso that the members of the widows' institutes received before that day shall have the right to request of the directory of the widows' institute their new reception under Appendixes A and B until July 1 of this year, but that the new reception shall be dated on April 1 of this year.

APPENDIX A.-Classification table of the Widows' Institute for Civil and Military Officials.

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- 3. Regulations for the widows' fund of Rostock professors of December 30, 1793.a

When the deceased wife of Doctor and Syndicus Spalding in a legacy donated for the foundation of a widows' fund for the professors of the Academy of Rostock 300 rix-dollar new two-thirds (reichsthaler n. zweydr.), and this money reached us during the past term of Antonius (Antonii-Termin), although because of complication of legacy moneys in the Bernard debit suit, at the time with a deduction of 30 rix-dollars; this furnished the occasion to the rector and council of the Rostock Academy for the establishment of such a special widows' fund for Rostock professors, and we were pleased to issue the following regulations for this institute:

1. This widows' fund, on the basis of that testamentary provision, is established only for actual professors of the Rostock Academy, both ordinary and extraordinary. Whosoever, therefore, wishes to take part in it must at the time of his accession be a Rostock professor; whosoever is not (a Rostock professor) can not be admitted even with the consent of all the members.

2. It shall depend, however, on the free will of each professor whether or not he will take part in this widows' fund. From the present professors the decision thereon and the payment of the entrance fee is expected before January 31 of next year. And the professors to be appointed hereafter shall announce their decision thereon within three months from the day of their reception into the council (concilium) or into the college (collegium) of all the professors. This term provision shall extend also to unmarried professors and shall not be changed by delay of their marriage.

3. Those professors. however, who did not join the association at the time fixed above shall be admitted also subsequently if, at the time, they shall not have passed the fiftieth year of life, and if they pay in cash, with 5 per cent interest, all they would have had to pay up to that time in entrance fee and yearly contributions if they had joined at the usual time. Also these professors who may join later on shall certify through a certificate made by their regular physician under oath that they are not afflicted with a disease or ailment which justifies the apprehension of an early death, but, rather, are in such condition that they can attend to their duties.

4. On admission, if this shall take place at the establishment of the association or, in future, within three months after reception (at the university-Tr.)

"These regulations were confirmed by sovereign decree of January 8, 1874.
ED 1904 M- -16

15 reichsthaler neue zweydr. shall be paid in cash; a and, subsequently, each member shall, as long as he lives, pay an additional contribution annually of 6 reichsthaler neue zweydr. in quarterly installments, which shall be paid on the 1st of January, April, July, and October. Beyond this no payments shall be required except that, for partial equalization of those who shall receive the position of a Rostock professor at a later age, whether they be married or not at the time of admission, these shall pay as much admission fee as the entrance fees and annual contributions, with interest, from the end of the fortieth year of their age would have carried. They may, however, be admitted on this payment, even if they shall have passed the fiftieth year of life, in so far as they shall give notice within three months after their reception (into the university). 5. The money received from admission fees and contributions, with interest thereon, paid by the members obligated thereto under §§ 3 and 4 shall, as soon as a sufficient sum shall have been accumulated, be invested on interest in order to distribute, subsequently, among the existing widows, and after deduction of the necessary expenses, the interest of these capitals and of the legacy of 300 reichsthaler. No other use can be made of this interest, excepting the case noted under § 16, even on unanimous consent of all the members.

6. The annual contributions shall be promptly paid at the stated times. Whoever shall fail to pay at the stated time shall pay in addition to the arrearage in the first half year, after due time, one-half the arrearage and in the second half year an amount equal to the arrearage. As soon, however, as a contribution shall have remained unpaid for more than one year, the dilatory member shall be thereby ipso facto excluded from the association and then not entitled to demand recovery of any portion of the payments made heretofore.

7. Each member may leave the association at his pleasure; only he shall give written notice of his desire to the administration. He can, however, then also not demand any restoration of the payments heretofore made by him. On the other hand, the member who shall have resigned at his own free desire shall. subsequently, if he shall request it, be again admitted, if he is not yet over 50 years old and if he shall submit the above-mentioned certificate of his physician. He shall then, however, be treated as a wholly new member, and can not in any way receive credit for his former admission fee and contributions.

8. If a member ceases to be a Rostock professor, his share in this widows' fund shall become extinct, and he shall not be entitled to demand restoration of the payments heretofore made by him.

9. On account of the small number of members and of inequality of acces sion, it has [not (?)-Tr.] been possible now to declare a fixed dividend for the widows. For the present, therefore, the entire income in interest from invested capitals, after deduction of the necessary expenses, shall be distributed among the widows in such a way that all the existing widows shall receive equal shares. If, however, in future a widow should be entitled to receive more than 100 reichsthaler new two-thirds annually, then for the sake of greater uniformity another distribution of widows' pensions shall be arranged. Yet even then the interest from the invested capital shall not be applied to any purpose other than the distribution among the widows and the increase of capital; and the first arrangement shall again be restored if experience should show that the changed arrangement can not continue.

10. No widow can claim payment unless her husband shall have been member of this association for a full year after his admission. Should he die sooner, only the admission fee and the paid contributions, but without interest, shall be returned to her.

11. In the distribution of interest among the widows the following principles shall be observed:

(a) Each widow who is living after June 30 attains thereby for herself and her heirs a claim to that interest which shall have become due in the past year, which for this institute shall always be counted from July 1 to June 30.

(b) However, this shall suffer an exception for the year in which the husband died, inasmuch as the widow shall not share at all in the interest due for that year.

(c) On the other hand, the heirs of the widow shall share in all the interest due until the last of June for the year in which she shall have died.

Now 52.50 marks.

Now 21 marks.

Now 300 marks.

11-Continued.

(d) Interest which is not paid at the time due, but is subsequently paid, shall belong to those widows and their heirs who were entitled to them at the time they were actually due, after deduction of the expenses of their collection, if these expenses are not paid by the debtor. However, the widows and their heirs-

(e) Shall unconditionally abide by whatever steps may be decided upon concerning the collection of such debts, especially in bankruptcy cases, and even in case of an agreement for the purpose of expediting the matter and saving costs, in which (agreement) interest may be remitted. (f) Moreover, no widow can demand that a capital, of the return of which the debtor shall have given notice or which shall have been called in by the administrator shall be invested again so that the interest may become due in the same term in which they had become due heretofore.

12. The quota, computed on these principles by the administration, shall be distributed among the widows at the end of June, and their receipt shall be acknowledged by the widows present at Rostock in a special receipt book and by those not present in accordance with a printed form.

13. A widow living outside of Rostock shall appoint an attorney at Rostock, who shall receive the receipt sent him by the administrator, attend to its legalization, and afterwards exchange it for the money. Moreover, such an absent widow shall draw her receipt before a notary and two witnesses and certify in the document her continued widowhood.

14. If a widow is married again her share in this institute is wholly extinguished, and she shall receive her quota for the year in which her marriage shall take place at the end of June for the last time. However, she shall retain her claim to the interest become due in the previous terms but not payable. She shall not be admitted again after the death of her second husband, unless eventually he, too, was a professor and member of the association.

15. If the husband voluntarily resigned or was excluded from the association for nonpayment of dues, the widow can not demand that she be reinstated in integrum, whatsoever special facts she may adduce for this purpose.

16. Should at any time no widows be present the interest for such a year, after deduction of expenses, shall be added to the capital, and a widow becoming entitled in the following year shall have no claim on the revenue of past years. 17. The administration of this widows' fund shall be in the hands of the professors who participate in it. The first administrator shall be elected out of regular sequence and for an indefinite time, inasmuch as the first organization presupposes some knowledge of similar associations and might require a longer period. Afterwards an administration shall always last for two years and the administrator shall be chosen from the members of the association in the order of their reception into the council (concilium). If the administrator should die during the period of his administration, his predecessor shall again conduct the administration until the close of the year and secure the delivery of the cash on hand and other documents and matters belonging to the widows' fund as soon as possible. Also, in the event of sickness and other detention, the predecessor assumes, temporarily, all business affairs.

18. The administration shall change on Michaelmas Day, and shall be conducted by the parties concerned free of charge. The administrator shall collect the admission fees and shall issue the certificate of admission. He shall cause the collection of the quarterly contributions and shall collect the interest. The former he shall lay by safely until they can be made into a capital, and the latter he distributes at the close of the year. Should any event require it, he shall notify the association in notices and meetings, and shall carry out, whenever necessary, their resolutions, in which plurality shall decide, but which can not change the regulations.

19. Concerning the investment of capital amounts, resolutions shall be passed in the same manner, but the association shall be subject in this to the consent of the entire council (concilium), which shall be conducted after the same principles that apply to the investment of academic funds. The members of the association who have a vote in the council shall retain herein their usual vote.

20. Within the first two weeks after Michaelmas Day the administrator shall circulate among the members of the association his account, which, under the above principles, shall be divided into a capital account and an interest accou

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