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ties for twenty years granted to them 5 when ibis time is expired , each of " them will have to pay the same duties which all other Rrtssian natives are bound to pay according- to their different stations , viz . tradesmen ^ the regular per cent , of their capital ; artists and professional men , their civil duties .
13 . Foreign Hebrews , who , after they have embraced the Christian religion , should wish to enter the Society , settle on the same appointed lands , and to partake of the right granted to them , have perfect liberty to do so . They may leave Russia again whenever they should please , as is
likewise permitted to > all other members of the Society , provided they first pay their debts and three years' dutv to the crown , from the capital they have raised in Russia , according * to the account which the siiperi 11 ten da ) it of the Society will conscientiously give concerning it .
14 . It is left to the discretion of the Tutelary Committee to draw up , upon the principles here laid down , the more circumstantial rules , both respecting their local management , public institutions and all other affairs , which may contribute best to the order and the happiness of all , but
especially with respect to institutions for moral cultivation an 4 education of youths according to the true principles of Christianity . ( The original is signed by his Imperial Majesty ) , ALEXANDER . St . Petersburg ^ Easter Sunday , Mar . 25 , 1817 .
In a Third Ukase of the same date , his Majesty names the president and directors who will constitute the Tutelary Committee , —leaves it to them to appoint secretaries and clerks according to their own discretion , —and in future , in case members should be wanted , to choose such fellow-labourers as may befit and given to the cause . The members of the
Committee ere declared to enter upon their labours simply out of zeal for the cause , ** id consequently receive uo salary . To the secretaries and clerks , however , they are to assign such salaries a $ they think
proper . For this and other necessary ex-P « n $ ee , his Imperial Majesty orders for the present 10 , 000 rubles to the Comwjittee ' a disposition , of which they will b » ve to give account to Prince Galitein , who will report the same to the Emperor .
The following lines conclude the account which is at present published concern ing this Society . The Tutelary Committee for the Christian Israelites wo * opeaad on the 4 tfc A |> ril , upon the principles of hip Imperial Majesty ' s Ukase here publUfod . T || e © fo ~ vot ; xm . ' 5 &
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jects of the Committee ' s labours will fee the following : ——1 . They will take under their protection all Hebrews -professing Christianity , who may wish to settle on the lands assigned hy government for that purpose , and for the same end are willing to enter the Society of Christian Israelites .
2 . They will have the superintendauce of the lands assigned to the said Society . 3 . They will support the rights which are graciously granted to this Society ; and , if necessary , afford lawful protection , as well to its individuals , as to the community at large .
4 . They wilj assist in Forming proper regulations , and introducing useful establishments in the colonies of Christian Israelites ; and , lastly , they will provide necessary means , that the new Christian * may be instructed in the doctrines and principles of the faith which they have
embraced , in order that they may not only know the system of Christianity , bat alsolive accordingly . Those means will consist in providing for the Society of Israelites , ( with the previous approbation of the
ecclesiastical government , ) worthy minis * ters and teachers—in erecting churches ^ schools , and every kind of useful institutions , as well for the * education of children as for the exercise of different arts—in
appointing experienced persons for local inspection and management , that they may , by then indefatigable exertions ta maintain public and domestic order in the colonies , and more particularly by their good example , lead the Society , by the help of God , to that truly happy ericL
Vfhich the good-will of his Majesty , our most gracious emperor , had in view in establishing them—the internal welfare of the Society , peace , quiet , union and . order —the fiee exercise of all useful professions —industry and mutual assistance among *
themselves—good education of children--- * provision for the superannuated and the sick , for helpless widows and orphans , and the care to introduce all good and laudable institutions will be the object of their institution and the sole end of Che
Committee ' s labours . The Committee having previously puby ^ Hsbed in tba Petersburg papers an adveiO tisement to the Hebrews who have / embrace *! Christianity , they conceive it necessary to inform them hereby repeatedly , that those Hebrews who wish to enter the Society of
Christian Israelites , and to settle on the lands assigned to them , arc by no meaus obliged to come to Petersburg in order to negotiate with the Committee on that sub * ject , but that every oiu ? is permitted to appJjr to the Committee by letter , and in thi * manner to eiqpieas hi « wi ^ h to be aiilniM ^ d | ato die ftociotj 4 > f < 6 hrifltifui
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Jtwsian Society of Christian Israelites . 777
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 777, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/49/
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