The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-07-19 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, JULY 7.—The latest number of the Bulletin of the
Laws contains his Majesty's ordinance relative to the civil con-
dition of the Jews in the Grand Duchy of Posen. It is of the
following tenor :
We, Frederick William, by the grace of God, King of
Prussia, &c.
Having convinced ourself of the necessity of ameliorating
as soon as possible the civil condition of the Jews in our Grand
Duchy of Posen, and without waiting for the promulgation of a
general law on the civil and political relations of the Jews, em-
bracing all the provinces of our monarchy, and to remove the
doubts which proceed from the state of the legislation on this
subject; we therefore have resolved on the following provisional
regulations forthat purpose, which may be completed and al-
tered conformably with the enactments of the general law to be
hereafter promulgated.
Sect. 1. • The Jewish inhabitants of every place form, as hi-
'therto, a religious community tolerated by the state, but which,
'with respect to what concerns its property, has the rights bf
a corporation. If the Jews of several places have hitherto
been united in one synagogue, this union shall continue like-
wise with regard to the affairs of the corporation.
2. This corporate union extends only to the internal affairs
of the synagogal communities; in other civil concerns no such
'union betwaen..the members of the Jewish communities sub-
sists.

3. Every Jew residing in the district of a synagogue belongs
to a corporation.
4. The right to vote
,in these corporations on the affairs
mentioned in sec. 2, belongs to every Jewish male of good
character and of full age, who either possesses real property, or
carries on trade on his own account, or otherwise lives inde-
pendent, without the aid of others.
5. The members qualified to vote, shall, in the presence and
under the superintendence of a commissioner of the govern-
ment, elect a number of representatives, and these again choose
the administratinct officers, who are to be confirmed by the
government, and who exercise their office gratuitously.
6. 7. 8. Relate to the number of the representatives and
officers, their reciprocal rights, &c.
9. The Jewish corporations, especially the administrating
officers, are bound to take care that no child fit fur school, from
the age of seven years to that of fourteen complete, shall be'
without the necessary school education. They are to take care
on their own responsibility that all children, boys as well as girls,
of the above age. shall frequent the public schools; and they
are farther bound to provide wholly indigent children with the
necessary clothing, the school money, and the other requisites
for their attendance in the schools, either from any special fund.
assigned for that purpose, or, if there is none such, from the
property of the corporation.
10. By public sChoools are understood the Christian schools
as well as the Jewish schools, established with the permission of
the state according to a prescribed plan, and provided with duly
qualified Jewish teachers confirmed by the government. How-
ever, the private education of the children may be allowed to the
parents as an exception, with the express consent of the govern-
ment. _

11. It is reserved to every community to provide for the spe-
cial religious instruction or the Jewish children; but only such
persons shall be admitted as teachers of religion who have been
authorized by the state to practise as teachers.
12. The language to he used in giving instruction in the Jew-
ish schools is the German.
13. After the Jewish boys have completed their school educa-
tion the administrative officers of the corporations are to take
care (and for this they are made responsible) that every boy
shall learn some useful trade, and shall qualify himself in the
scientific institutions for a superior profession ; and that none of
them shall be employed as itinerant traders or artisans. They
shall endeavour to accomplish this in concert with the parents
or guardians; and if they fail in this, they are to apply to the
counsellorof the circle, who shall call on the parents or guardians
to destine the boys either to an art or science, or to agriculture,
or to a useful handicraft, or to manufacture and to trade in
some fixed place.
14. The military obligations of the Jews in the grand duchy
of Posen will be regulated in the sequal as in the other pro-
vinces, till the Jews duly qualified may enter the army as vo-
lunteers. In this case the volunteer and his father are' exeinpt
from the payment of the recruit-money, which will continue to
be paid by those fathers whose sons do not enter the service.
15. The marriage of a Jew with a foreign woman is not to be
allowed, unless the woman has a marriage portion of at least
500 dollars. Dispensations in certain urgent cases to be ob-
tained from the high president of the prcivince.
16. The local governments are to take care that the affairs of
the corporations shall be regulated within six months from the
publication of this ordinance.
17. The general requisites in naturalization are—
(a) An unexceptionable character.
(b) The ability or the obligation to use the German lan.
guage exclusively in all public concerns, testaments, accounts,
&c. (The High President, on the application of the local go-
vernment, may dispense with this requisite).
(c) The adoption of a special family name.
18. These preliminaries being supposed, those shall be re-
moved into the class of naturalised Jews who can prove—
(a) That they have constantly resided in the Grand Duchy
of Poseu ever since the year 1815, or that they have subse-
quently obtained the express permission of the government to
settle in it.

(b) That they either have devoted themselves to some act or
service and exercise so as to gain their livelihood by it; or
possess and cultivate themselves a piece of land of sufficient
extent to• ensure the support of themselves and families; or
follow in a town some express established business to a cer-
tain extent.; or possess in a town real property of the value of
at least 2000 dollars ; or by patriotic actions have deserved well
of the state.

19. Those who furnish such proof are to receive letters of
naturalisation from the government of the circle in which they
reside.

20. Jews though naturalised may settle in the towns and country
in the province, acquire real property of all kinds, and follow all
allowed professions • excepting the recruit money 014) they are
not bound to any distinct contributions to the public treasury in
the chambers, but are bound to perform all the obligations incum-
bent on the Christians, towards the state and the commune in
which the reside (except as in section 14, relative to the military
service). With the exception of the special regulations esta-
blished by the laws on account of the difference of religion,
such as the taking of oaths, the piesentation of bills of exchange
on Sabbaths andholidays, they are subject in all their civil and
private relations to the same general, laws as the Christian
inhabitantg.

The fallowing sections to 24 relate to those Jewish inhabi-
tants who are not yet qualified to obtain naturalisation.

25. All Jews not yet naturalised, but who are to be tolerated
and furnished with certificates, are farther subject to the follow-
ing regulations :
(a) They are not to be permitted to contract marriages till
they have completed their 21th year, unless the chief president,
in particular cases, grants a dispensation.
(b) They shall reside only in toWns, (with the exception
stated under d,) but not to be confined to what have been
hitherto assigned as the Jewish quarters. They are not qualified
to obtain the rights of citizens.
(e) They are excluded from trading with the privileges of
merchants. They cannot keep public-houses, except with spe-
cial permission. They are wholly prohibited from itinerant
buying and selling. They are free to follow all other stationary
trades under the general regulations.
(d) Such JeWs are not allowed to reside in the country, un-
less they either acquire or rent it farm, and cultivate it them-
selves; or hire themselves to landowners as servants, or to
conduct some particular branch, e. g. as distillers or brewers.
They are absolutely prohibited from keeping public-houses in
the country.
(e) They are not allowed to have Christian apprentices,
journeymen, or servants.
(f.) These JeWs'are not allowed to make loans of money, un-
less certified by legal documents duly registered, on pain of their
being null and voitl.
(g) Claims for debts arising from the sale of intoxicating li-
quors have no legal validity.
26. To marry they require a-certificate, which they shall re-
ceive free of stamp duty and other charges, when they show that
they have either completed their 24th year, or have obtained a
dispensation from the chief president; where the bride is a fo-
reigner, that she has a fortune of 500 rix dollars, and that they
have means, either by following a legal profession, or by the
possession of sufficient property, to provide for the subsistence
of• a family.
f 327. In all other respects the non-naturalized Jews are to be
treated in the same manner as the Christian subjects.
28. The tolerated Jews shall receive letters of 'naturalisation
as soon as they prove their qualifications, according to 18 and 19.
Foreign Jews may enter the province, either to travel through
it, or to carry on legal mercantile business.
Our magistrates and subjects to conform to these regulations,
till the promulgation of a final law, or other ordinances chang-
ing the above.
Berlin, June 1. (L.S.) FREDERICK WILLIAM.
(Countersigned by all the members.)

Inttitigenrc.

TUESDAY, 16th July.—Noon, Wind N.—Fair.

ARRIVED :—Eagle, Lyon, from New York, (sailed 25th ult.)—Mo-
nongahela, Brown, Philadelphia—Fanny, Taylor, Newfoundland—
Highlander, Monclen ; Samuel, Bond ; and Laurel, Dobson, Jamaica
--Sophia, Easton, Montreal—Bransty, Wilson. Tathjiico, (sailed 6th
May.)—EiThrt, Orfeur, Zante.
Caravan, Nichols ; ilogarth, Allen ; Hope, —, and La Grange,
—, hence at New York.

Brunette, Fahs, from New Orleans for this port, was spoken 2d inst.
n lat. 41 15., Ion& 51 30.

The New York Packet, Crosbie, from London, at Jamaica, in 28
days from the Land's End.
Treasurer, Lawrie, from Port-au-Prince, at Aux Clayes.
Fortitude, Arncld, hence, at Havana.
Rambler, Drew, hence, at Baltimore, 20th ult.
Grecian, ; Martha, Easterby ; and Mary, —, hence, at
Charleston.
Dalhorzfk-,-eastle, —, hence, at Mobile.
Lady Hannah Ellice, Liddell, hence, at Norfolk, 19th ult.
David Cannon, Underwood, hence, at New Orleans, 6th ult.
SAILED :—Tallahasse, Glover, for New York— Active, Strachan,
Archangel--Neptune, De Igartue, Barcelona--Christina Cornelia,
Mik; Dordt—Hannah, Brigland, Maranham—Accession, Wil-
liams, Narva—Europe, Maxwell, New York—Catharina, Van Dam,
Rotterdam—Earl of Carrol, Ritchie, Riga—Mercurius, Morck, Tons-
berg—Belgrave, Everard, Riga—London Packet, Ellring, Antwerp—
Industrie, Van Durenbooden, Rotterdam.

WEDNESDAY, 17th July.—Noon, Wind N.N.W.—Pair.

ARRIVED .:-Sir Howard Douglas, M'Pherson, from Sieria Leone—
John Troughton, Fleming, Mandahn (Brazil)—Susan, Nicholls, Phila-
delphia—Combatant, Miller, Charleston—Elizabeth, Dyer, Newfound-
land—Margaretha Hendricka, Werf, and Jonge Frederick, Kock,
Harlingen—Catharine Alisna, Sehurring, Amsterdam—Johanna
Maria, Street, Dordt Olivia Cecilia, Bay, Schiedam Johanna
Getina, Schieus, Rotterdam—Belle Alliance, Wellmore, and La Vile
de Brexilles, —, Ostend—Amphitrite, —, Smyrna.
Kingston, White, hence, at Quebec, after having been on shore at
Anticosti, and obliged to throw part of her cargo overboard.
Alice; Hall, hence, for Boston, was spoken 15th instant, off Bardsey.
Chatham, Williams, from Jamaica for this port, was off Waterfurd
13th instant.

Ann Mackenzie, Gill, from London at Jamaica, the 23d May.
Dependent, Gallilee ; Economy,. Wilson, and 3irkby, Johnson,
hence, at Quebec.
Robert Burns, Messenger, hence, at Cape Breton.
Grog, Alexander, hence, at Arichat.
P R C., Le Bas, from Jersey, at do.
Ditto, Luce, hence, at Bay Chaleur.
Ditton, Gihatit, and Oliver Blanchard, —, from Jersey, at do.
Thomas Naylor, Hannah, from Odessa for this port at Falmouth,
14th instant.
Bructon, Harvey, from Nassau at the Clyde.
Hedwig, Hoting, hence at Bremen.
Ceres, Vink, and Perseverance, Zellln, hence at Ostend.
Gebruder, Vesser, hence at the Texel.
Parker, for Demerara, passed Holyhead at 1, p.m.
Hannah, for Maranham, do do 7, do.
Tallahasse, for New York, do do 3, do.
SAILED :-St Croix, Bradley, for Honduras—Albion, M'Leod, Cal-
cutta—Clifton, Bushbv, Montreal—Governor Troup, Pitcher, New
York—United States, M'Michael, Philadelphia--Mauney, Jones, Lis-
bon—Melantha, Price, Naples.