THE MENNONITE BROTHERHOOD IN RUSSIA (1789 - 1910), P. M. Friesen, 1911

6, 1910.” “The authorized representative Mr. Claassen opens the session with a brief address and conducts a roll call of delegates. In attendance were— from Halbstadt: Abraham Isaak, Jakob Neufeld, Peter Friesen, Peter Neufeld, David Klassen, Jakob Renpenning and Colony Administrator Dietrich Dick; from Chortitza; Johann Thiessen, Komelius Martens, Johann Reimer, Jakob Klassen, Peter Dick and Colony Administrator Jakob Wiebe; from Gnadenfeld: Gerhard Duerksen, Aron Rempel, Nikolai Esau, Peter Martens, Isaak Neufeld and Colony Administrator Jakob Duerksen; from Melitopol: Johann Neufeld and Wilhelm Klassen; from Nikolaipol: Franz Peters, Abraham Braun; from Nikolaital: Peter Funk; from Neu-Chortitza: Jakob Rempel; from Memrik: Komelius Unrau; from New-York: Jakob Niebuhr; from Schoenfeld: Jakob Neufeld and Wilhelm Janzen; from Ohrloff (Sagradovka): Peter Siemens and Heinrich Duerksen; from Malyschin: Peter Wiens and Johann Bergmann; from Alexandertal: David Ewert and Hermann Riesen; from Ufa: Gerhard Neufeld; from Neu-Samara: Komelius Unger; from Crimea: Peter Wall and Heinrich Dick; from the Caucasus: Alfred Lange and Gerhard Goerzen; from Terek: Gerhard Schmidt; from Orenburg: Jakob Bergen; from Omsk: Peter Petkau; from the city of Berdiansk: Wilhelm Rempel. Besides this, the following members with voting rights were present: Commissioner Jakob Dick and the members of the Council, Jakob Sudermann and David Dick; a member of the auditing committee, Heinrich Schroeder and eight ‘managers’ from the forestry camps (the latter without voting rights). "Point 1. Elected as secretaries by the assembly are: Hermann Riesen (Alexandertal) and Peter Dick (Chortitza). 2. Upon examination §285 614 THE STATE of authorizations, it is found that the authorizations of the delegates from Halbstadt and Schoenfeld do not conform with the format of a uniform church decision as it was worked out in 1909. The assembly declares that it cannot approve these authorizations. 3. Wilhelm Rempel, the delegate from the city of Berdiansk is recognized as a delegate by the assembly and the Memrik District is granted a second representative. 4. The authorized representative reports briefly concerning the economic and financial situation as well as the moral-religious conditions at the forestry camps and comments on our relationship to the government. 5. Mr. H. Schroeder reads the report of the auditing commission which the assembly ratifies. The assembly offers its gratitude to the commission. The report went as follows: “The Auditing Commission has reviewed the accounts of the authorized representative as well as the individual managers of the forestry camps on April 5 and 6 of this year and we have found them entirely in order. In addition, the expense estimates of the authorized representative and of the managers for the year 1910 were thoroughly inspected. We recommend them for ratification by the assembly of dele