for their inspection and eventual amendment, and each member shall attend to this inspection and amendment as soon as possible, within not more than eight days. If these terms are not observed, the administrator shall be held to a fine in the amount of an annual contribution, and other parties concerned in the amount of a semiannual contribution to the fund. Then the account shall be received and acquitted by the rector and the council of the academy like other academic accounts.

21. For the assistance of the administrator a monitor shall be appointed, who shall collect the contributions and the interest, deliver the quotas of the widows to these or to their attorneys, and attend to all matters of business generally. He shall be elected by the association, but can be dismissed again at any time if the association is not satisfied with him. In the election the academic bedels shall be considered in preference. As his salary, 4 reichsthaler, new two-thirds, are at present appropriated for him. With the increase of the fund, however, this sum may be somewhat increased.

22. In order to comply punctually with the intention of the wife of Syndicus Spalding, and in order to ease the mind of each member and his widow, it is further ordered herewith that the purpose of this fund, even with unanimous approval of all its members, shall not be changed and that this shall forever remain an independent institute. Even if the improbable event should occur that at some time no members should be present, the institute shall nevertheless continue, and the rector and council shall then assume its administration interimistically under these regulations until again there shall be three members, to whom the administration shall then revert.

4. Statutes of the university ophans' fund of July 16, 1872.a

§ 1. The orphans' fund is established for the benefit of surviving orphans of ordinary and extraordinary professors, docents, and officials of the University of Rostock. Only a person belonging at the time to the University of Rostock shall be entitled to membership.

§ 2. Accession to the orphans' fund shall be voluntary. From the persons at present belonging to the University of Rostock declaration on this point will be expected on or before August 15 of this year. In future those entitled to membership shall submit their declaration within three months after their accession to their position in the University of Rostock.

§ 3. Persons, however, belonging to the university, who may not have joined the orphans' fund at the time stipulated above, shall still be admitted subsequently if they shall pay, with 5 per cent annual interest in cash, all they would have had to pay up to the time in admission fee and yearly contributions if they had joined at the stipulated time.

$ 4. Each member shall pay annually from the time of his accession a contribution of 16 marks, in quarterly installments, on the 1st of January, April, July, and October. From the time when the property of the orphans' fund shall have reached 3,000 marks new members shall pay in addition an entrance fee of 10 marks.

§ 5. Each member can resign at pleasure, but for the purpose of release from further obligations a written notice to the administrator shall be required. In such event there shall exist no claim to return of payments made heretofore. The person who has resigned voluntarily shall, however, subsequently, if he requests it, be readmitted, but shall then be held to make subsequent payment of the contributions that may have become due for the time during which he was not a member, with 5 per cent annual interest.

§ 6. If a member ceases to be professor, docent, or official of the University of Rostock, his share in the orphans' fund shall also cease, and he shall have no claim to demand return of his payments. Retirement with whole or partial retention of salary shall not be considered as cessation of the required qualification of membership. Besides, a person who for one year shall have failed to pay his contributions shall cease ipso facto to be member of the institute from the day on which he shall receive notice thereof from the administrator of the fund. As a matter of course the separated member shall remain responsible for the payment of the four quarterly contributions left unpaid.

• These statutes were approved by the sovereign under date of August 22, 1872.

§ 7. The contributions, admission fees, and all other benefits accruing to the orphans' fund, as well as the interest of the capital fund, shall be added to the capital until this shall have reached 3,000 marks. Only from and after this time the revenues of the fund shall be available as benefits for orphans under the provisions below.

§ 8. Entitled to benefit from the orphans' fund are, in the first place, fatherless and motherless orphans of persons belonging to the university who were members of the orphans' fund until their death. Only if after sufficient consideration of these the fund shall permit, merely fatherless orphans of former members shall acquire claim. The pension is intended to be used for the education of the orphans and shall cease, as a rule, when this shall have been completed. Only in the event of special reasons, and if the condition of the fund shall permit this without infringement on the claims of other orphans, older orphans shall have a claim to pension. The investigation of the circumstances shall belong to the administration of the fund. However, against its decision appeal to the rector and concilium shall be permitted. This appeal shall Le submitted to the rector within four weeks after receipt of the decision of the administration, to be given in writing, on penalty of definitive refusal. The decision of the concilium shall be made with the generally established rules for conciliary decisions under the academic statutes. However, the provision of § 19 of the academic statutes shall not apply in this case.

$9. The amount of the pensions shall be determined by the available means, which, after deduction of the expenses of administration, are to be applied exclusively to the purpose of the institute. (Compare above § 7.) Should, however, such application yield for one claimant 300 marks or more, then the sum of 300 marks shall stand as a maximum of the pension due and the excess shall be applied to the increase of the capital.

§ 10. The administration of the orphans' fund shall be conducted by the members themselves, and in such a way that for every four years one member shall be constituted as administrator. The election shall be made at a meeting to which all the members shall be called in writing by the administrator in office, and by absolute majority. If such majority shall not be obtained on the first ballot, further proceedings shall be under the provisions for the election of rector in the general academic statutes.

Each member shall be obliged to accept election, but not reelection. Should the administration become vacant in the course of the statutory time by death or resignation of the administrator, there shall be held immediately, on motion to be made by the predecessor of the administrator, a new election for the remaining time of the statutory term. In temporary detentions of the administrator his predecessor, eventually the predecessor of the latter, etc., shall officiate for the time of detention.

§ 11. The administrator shall determine in case of notice of accession whether the statutory requisites exist, then notify the association of the accession, draw up the certificate of admission, and eventually (see § 4) collect the admission fee. The administrator shall, furthermore, collect the quarterly contributions from all the members and the interest from invested capitals, finally receive, eventually, other donations to the fund, and give receipt therefor.

§ 12. The investment, recall, and cession of capitals, for which, as for all other money transactions for the fund, he shall be considered legitimized by his election, shall be within the authority of the administrator; however, he shall be subject therein to the approval of two members of the orphans' fund, elected by the council. In such decision the same principles shall be observed with reference to the required security which regulate the investment of academic moneys. The defeated minority in such decisions shall have appeal to the rector and concilium, whose decision shall be final in every case.

§ 13. Within two weeks after July 1 the administrator shall submit in a circular his account to the members for revision and correction, respectively. This revision and correction shall be completed by each individual member within at most eight days. If these terms shall be neglected, the administrator shall be held to the payment of a fine into the fund equal to an annual contribution, and each member to such fine equal to a semiannual contribution. After accomplished approval of the account by the association, it shall be submitted to the rector and concilium and here, like every other academic account, received and acknowledged.

§ 14. As assistant for the administrator a monitor may be elected by the association, on momentary notice and with a yearly pay of at most 10 marks, who shall attend to the collection, contributions, payments, etc.

for their inspection and eventual amendment, and each member shall attend to this inspection and amendment as soon as possible, within not more than eight days. If these terms are not observed, the administrator shall be held to a fine in the amount of an annual contribution, and other parties concerned the amount of a semiannual contribution to the fund. Then the account s be received and acquitted by the rector and the council of the academy like of academic accounts.

21. For the assistance of the administrator a monitor shall be appointed shall collect the contributions and the interest, deliver the quotas of the v to these or to their attorneys, and attend to all matters of business ge He shall be elected by the association, but can be dismissed again at : if the association is not satisfied with him. In the election the acade shall be considered in preference. As his salary, 4 reichsthaler, new + are at present appropriated for him. With the increase of the fun this sum may be somewhat increased.

22. In order to comply punctually with the intention of the wife Spalding, and in order to ease the mind of each member and his wi ther ordered herewith that the purpose of this fund, even w approval of all its members, shall not be changed and that t remain an independent institute. Even if the improbable ev that at some time no members should be present, the institute continue, and the rector and council shall then assume its admi istically under these regulations until again there shall be whom the administration shall then revert.

4. Statutes of the university ophans' fund of

§ 1. The orphans' fund is established for the bene ordinary and extraordinary professors, docents, and of Rostock. Only a person belonging at the time shall be entitled to membership.

§ 2. Accession to the orphans' fund shall be vol present belonging to the University of Rostock de expected on or before August 15 of this year. bership shall submit their declaration within t to their position in the University of Rostock.

§ 3. Persons, however, belonging to the une the orphans' fund at the time stipulated ai quently if they shall pay, with 5 per cent an have had to pay up to the time in admithey had joined at the stipulated time.

$ 4. Each member shall pay annually 1 bution of 16 marks, in quarterly inst. July, and October. From the time whe have reached 3,000 marks new memb of 10 marks.

§ 5. Each member can resign at p' further obligations a written notic In such event there shall exist no tofore. The person who has resig if he requests it, be readmitted, but ment of the contributions that T which he was not a member, with

§ 6. If a member ceases to be: of Rostock, his share in the orph no claim to demand return of his retention of salary shall not be cation of membership. Besides to pay his contributions shall from the day on which he shal of the fund. As a matter of con sible for the payment of the fou

a These statutes were approved

the pension fund and decision as to the use of its phs shall be intrusted to a committee of the

the respective rector. This committee

ne member each of the theological, s of the philosophical faculty, ple majority of votes, for tant, to be mentioned cording to a sequence

. committee shall require nall be elected by simple Ps. He shall administer his an honorarium. The accounted submit it within four weeks hall submit it to the other memng council members for eventual e other persons entitled to particiand subsequently shall advise the and the council of his discharge from

ted capital funds shall be deposited in the

epartment for educational affairs, shall have and, therefore, report shall be made to it y concerning the administration of the fund and inclosure of a copy of the account, attested by

ducal ministry, too, the confirmation of these regulaof the rights of a charitable institution shall be d the concilium.

these regulations are not prohibited. They can, however, assembly of the persons named in § 1, in whose convocation ject of the deliberations shall be stated, and in which -t two-thirds of the interested parties shall be present, by of the persons present, and shall take effect only upon upervising ministry.

§ 15. In the event that at some time there should be no members, the rector and concilium shall assume the administration under these statutes until there shall be again three members, to whom then the administration shall be transferred.

These statutes, which shall be handed, in print, to each member on his admission into the association, have been drawn up in documentary form over the signature of the rector at the time and with the seal of the university affixed, and highest sovereign confirmation thereof shall be requested.

5. Regulations concerning the administration and use of the orphans' pension fund of the University of Rostock.a

§ 1. The pension fund has been established for fatherless and motherless, as well as merely fatherless, orphans needing assistance, of ordinary and extraordinary professors, actually appointed under salary and deceased in full official activity, and also for the above-designated surviving orphans of the academic music teacher.

§ 2. There shall be excluded, therefore, the children of such university teachers as occupy the professorship merely as a secondary office, as well as of those professors who in the last two years before their death have delivered no lectures without being hindered therein by sickness, to be attested by a physician's certificate, or by other causes, to be adequately established.

$3. The pensions shall be paid only from the interest of the capital fund. The latter shall never be drawn upon. The surplus of receipts over expenditures shall be capitalized and invested on interest on unquestioned security.

§ 4. The pension to be paid to the guardianship of the orphan shall cease 1. If a son shall have completed the twenty-third year;

2. If, although younger, he is already provided for by earning his own support;

3. If a daughter shall have completed the twenty-first year;

4. If she shall be married before that time; or

5. If the child shall lead a scandalous life and shall not desist therefrom after one serious admonition from the chairman of the administration committee (§ 10). If such admonition shall have been made by the father before his death, which fact it would not be difficult to establish, the respective child shall have no claim to pension if it shall already have passed the sixteenth year.

§ 5. From the regulation established in § 4, under Nos. 1 and 3, those children shall be exempt who, by legally proved physical defects, shall be wholly deprived of the possibility of self-support, either for a certain time or forever.

§ 6. The legal establishment shall be intrusted to the certificate, conformable to duty, of an official physician, signed also by the police magistracy of the residence, with strict responsibility as to the truth of the testimony, and with the provision of a triple gradation under which there shall be shown either

(a) Such limited inability to earn a living as indicates the indispensable need of additional support; or

(b) Total, temporary, or permanent inability to earn a living; or (c) The still worse condition of invalidism, of total blindness, of uninterrupted confinement to the bed, or of other crippled condition which, in addition to total inability to earn a living, renders necessary the assistance of others.

§ 7. The certificates of the physicians and of the magistracy shall definitely distinguish the case of a decided total incurableness or lifelong inability to earn a living from that of a curable defect or of a temporary inability to earn a living, and in the latter case shall propose a definite number of years for which the contribution for support shall be allowed, continued, or increased, after the lapse of which time, eventually, a repeated investigation for further decision shall be submitted.

§ 8. The contribution for support shall continue for the children, even if the still living mother shall change her condition.

§ 9. The pensions shall be paid in quarterly installments in advance. In the event of the death of a beneficiary the support shall become extinct with the end of the mortuary quarter.

"These regulations received sovereign confirmation under date of July 6, 1875.