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(1900) [MARC] Author: Emil Herlenius
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in this land of liberty and their in unity continue to shore an
enjoy in common the preceeds of our industry by the
establishment of this Colony for the benefit and reception of all who hold
the true faith both in words and deeds; therefore we the
untersigned, members of the Bishop Hill Colony in the County of Henry
and State of Tllinois, in order to secure a more complete union —
establish harmony and justice and promote the general walfare and
happiness, provide for our mutual protection and prosperity and obtain
for ourselves and our descendents the enjoyment of republican
freedom, do, in accordance with the provisions of an act
ofincorporation, granted to us by the legislature of the State of Illinois in the
year Å. D. 1853 for our better organisation and gouvernement
adopt and establish the following By-Laws.

Article 1. Any person sustaming a good moral character
may become a member of this Colony by tramnsferring to the
trustees thereof all his or her real and personal property, and
subseribing to these by-laws. ’The board of Trustees shall determine
the question of moral character and admission, and a majority of
said trustees shall constitute a quorum for that purpose. The
trustees may, in their disceretion, refer the question of admission
to a vote of the adult male members of the Colony.

Artiecle 2. “The property which any person on becoming a
member of this Colony shall transfer to the trustees thereof, shall
become forever thereafter the absolute property of the Colony; and
on withdrawal or discontinuance of membership by any person, he
shall not be entitled to compensation or pay for any services or
labor he may have performed during the time he may have been
a member: but it shall be at the option of the trustees to give to
such person such things, whether money or property, as they, the
trustees, shall deem right or proper.

Article 3. Any member, who shall be guilty of disturbing
the peace and harmony of this society, by vicious or wicked
conduct, or by preaching and disseminating doctrines of a religious
belief contrary to the doctrines of the Bible which are generally
received and believed by this Colony, may be expelled.

Artiele 4. It shall be the duty of the trustees of said Colony
to regulate and direct the various industrial pursuits and business of
said Colony in person or by such agents or foremen, as they may
see fit to appoint from time to time, and to require such agents
or foremen to account to them in such manner and at such time
as they, the trustees, shall deem convenient and proper.

Artiele 5. There shall be held annually, on the second
Monday of January in each year, a meeting of the adult male
members of said Colony for the general transaction of business, at
which time the Board of Trustees shall make a full and complete
report of the financial condition and affairs of the Colony for the
year ending on the Saturday next previous to such meeting. But
, the Board of Trustees, or a majority of them, may call speoial
meetings of the adult male members of the Colony for thg con

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