Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-28

but the debts and obligations referred TO In
he mortgage are understood to include
variety of business ventures in which the
Harmony Society, through its trustees,
have engaged not always to their pront.
There is another interesting instrument
now on record at the Court House in
Beaver 1t is the deed of Conformation OF
Association fled bv the majority OF the
Harmony Society before the mortgage was
drawn up 1t is meant to ratify, so it says,
the articles of agreement and compacts OF
ASSOCIATION entered into at Economy on
August II, 1S47 and those of April 30, 1890,
confrmatory of the former, and ratltying
acts of the Boards of Trustees and Elders.
To begin with it gives list of
the members in good standing on
December 20. as follows: jacob
Henrici, John S. Duss, j. Jacob Nlclaus,
Moritz j. Friederichs, Gottfried Lauppe,
Johannes Scheid, Franz Gilman, Hugo
Miller, Conrad Hermansdoerfer, julius
Stickel, Eduard Kellermann, Henry Feucht,
B. Feicht, Blasius P1atz, Sigmund Stief-
water, Regina Lantenschlager, Christina
Rail, Karoline Mott, Katharina Nagel,
Elizabeth Beck, Lena Rail, now
Lena Wolfangel, Thirza Feucht,
Rebecka Feicht, Margaretha Feucht =
Christine Haerer, Susie G. Duss, Bertha
Geratch, Pauline Stickel, Johanna Her
Friederike NUM-, Dorothea Hoehr, Philip
ina L. Wolfangel, Gottlieb Riethmeuller,
Samuel Siber and Elizabeth Siber. The
Board of Elders is also named, as follows:
Jacob Henrici, John s. Duss, Johannes
Scheid, Gottfried Lauppe, Moritz j. Fried
erichs, J. Jacob NicIaus, Conrad HermaDs-
doerfer, Hugo Miller, Gottlieb Riethmuel-
Ter.
Absolute Control Vested in Duss.
The document then goes on to say that in
order to settle the question of the trustees
authority beyond all doubt, the society, as
represented by the subscribers, grants to
said trustees, Jacob Henrici and John
S. Duss, and to either of them and
their survivors and successors full power
from time to time and when they desire
for the true interest of the society, to bor-
row money and give notes, bills, mortgages
and deeds of trust in the society's name for
the same This empowering of the trustees,
and especially it should be observed OF
their survivor or successors, is repeated
further along, and it means simply that
in the event of the death of
one of trustee the survivor could 60
right along as the representative of the
society. Mr.. Henrici having died Mr.. Duss
still has alone the powers he held Jointly
with the former. The power to borrow
money upon mortgage for example. To
make this clearer the instrument specifically
states that in the execution of instruments
and conveyances one trustee may sign for
both, or their successors, or either of them.
This paper makes Mr.. Duss, as the sur
viving trustee, the sole arbiter for the time
being of the society's actions, financial or
otherwise. Even when another trustee Is
elected Mr.. Duss will have the right ac-
cording to this paper to borrow money,
give notes, sign conVeyances, for the So
ciety, but in his own name. An attorney
who is not pre- JUDGED in Mr.. Duss' favor,
but who is of high standing. said last night
that the confrmatory articles of association
put Mr.. Duss absolutely in command of the
society, its resources and powers.
The articles bear the signatures of "a
members out of the total 3S, or leaving the
dead patriarch, Mr. Henrici, out So out of
possible 81. The four members who did not
sign and who bluntly refused to sign were
DR.. B. Feicht, his brother Henry, whose
name is spelt in the document Fencht by
the way, and their %ives, Rebecka and
Margareth Feicht
The Four Would Not Sign.
Their names appear in the typewriter
document filed at Beaver, but have been
stricken out, as if it had been hored
they would sign up to the last mo-
ment. 1t was acknowledged before the
same Justice Breitenstein on December 20,
that is, Tuesday last The witness was
Judge Henry Hice, of counsel for the
society.
Of those who did sign, four made their
mark The list is headed by the faltering
illegible signature of Jacob Henrici him
self A blot of ink escaped from the sick
mans pen as he tried to make the capital
H, and the score divides the whole signature
The first name begins below the line and
the rest of it straggles up and down in q
painfully pathetic way, as the accompany
ing cut shows: