Hebrew Benevolent Association of Jefferson, Texas

 

 


INTERIOR OF SYNAGOGUE LOOKING TOWARD ARK.1966 

 

 


 

Charity
       
Hebrew Benevolent Association. Org. July, 1862. Pres., Mrs. Dora Rosenthal; Sec., Eva Eldrldge. 
Cemetery
      
Cemetery, maintained by the Hebrew Benevolent Association.

American Jewish Year Book‎ - Page 412
American Jewish Committee, Jewish Publication Society of America - 1907

 


 

CHAPTER XCV.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE HEBREW BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF JEFFERSON, TEXAS.

Section 1. Be it enacted by Ike Legislature of the (State of Texas, That Moses Steinline, E. Marx, A. Rosenthal, Julins Ney, J. Sherk, M. Levy, E. Hernstadt, and their associates and successors, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees of an association for the relief of the poor and indigent of the Jewish persuasion, established in the city of Jefferson, Texas, which said association is hereby declared a body politic and corporate by the name and style of the " Hebrew Benevolent Association of Jefferson, Texas," by which name it shall have succession; be capable of suing and being sued, of pleading and being impleaded in any of the courts of the State of Texas; may acquire estate, real, personal and mixed ; and encumber, sell or otherwise alienate the same, as said association may deem to be expedient.

Sec. 2. The amount of property held by said association shall at no time exceed one hundred thousand dollars.

Sec. 3. The said corporation shall have power to enact such bylaws, rules and regulations for its government, and generally to do any and all things that may seem proper to its members for the promotion of the interests of the association not incompatible with the Constitution and laws of the United States and this State, and shall have a common seal, which, with the signatures of the president and secretary of the board of trustees, shall be evidence of their acts.

Sec. 4. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 

Approved April 17, 1871. 

 

Laws Passed by the ... Legislature of the State of Texas

by Texas - 1871

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