ADDENDA.
UR SEAL
'S INSCRIPTION. — George Henry Lewes tells
us that young Carlyle, who had often been cheered and
strengthened for the part he was to play in life by the beauty
and wisdom which Goethe had revealed to him, conceived the
idea that it would be a pleasant and fitting thing if some of
the admirers in England forwarded to Weimar a trifling token
of their admiration. Mrs. Carlyle sketched the design of a
seal to be engraved with the words "Ohne Hast, ohne Rast"
(unhasting, unresting), in allusion to the verses:
Wie das Gestirn,
Ohne Hast,
Aber ohne Rast,
Drehe sich Jeder
Um die eig'ne Last.
Fifteen English admirers subscribed to have the seal made
and as far as Goethe's biographer was able to ascertain, the
following gentlemen appeared on the subscription list: Carlyle
and his brother Dr. Carlyle, Walter Scott, Lockhart, Words-
worth, Southey, Churchill, Frazer, Prof. Wilson, Jerdan,
Heraud, Lord Leveson Gower, and Proctor (Barry Cornwall).
As the gentlemen who became members of the "Society for the History
of the Germans in Maryland" since 1889 may not be aware that this
Society was duly incorporated on the 10th of April 1889 according to
the laws of the State, we print the instrument in full.
Ed.
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS,
that we, John G. Morris, Louis P. Hennighausen, Lewis H. Steiner,
Charles F. Raddatz, Edward F. Leyh, Frederick Ph Hennighausen, and
George Wm. Gail, being citizens of the United States and a majority
of whom are citizens of the State of Maryland do hereby certify, that
we do, under and by virtue of the general laws of this State, authorizing
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the formation of corporations, hereby form a corporation under the name
of "The Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland of Balti-
more City."
2. WE DO FURTHER CERTIFY, that the said corporation so formed
is as a corporation for the purpose of gathering, publishing and pre-
serving material for the History of the Germans in Maryland, that the
term of the existence of the said corporation, is limited to forty years,
and that the said corporation is formed upon the articles, conditions
and provisions herein expressed and subject in all particulars to the
limitations relating to corporations, which are contained in the general
laws of this State.
3. WE DO FUBTHER CERTIFY,
that the operations of the said cor-
poration are to be carried on in the State of Maryland and that the
principal office of the said corporation will be located in Baltimore
City.
4 WE DO FURTHER CERTIFY,
that the said corporation has no
capital stock.
5. WE DO FURTHER CERTIFY,
that the said corporation will be
managed by a board of officers and that John G. Morris, D. D., L. L. D.,
Louis P. Hennighausen, Charles Weber, Robert M. Rother, Dr. Lewis H.
Steiner, Edward F. Leyh, Charles F. Raddatz, Ernest Hoen, are the
names of the nine officers who will manage the concerns of the said
corporation for the first year.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF,
we have hereunto set our hands and seals
this twenty-ninth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty
nine.
Witness:
WILLIAM B. NELSON.
JOHN
G. MORRIS.
(SEAL)
LOUIS P. HENNIGHAUSEN.
(SEAL)
LEWIS H. STEINER.
(SEAL)
CHARLES F. RADDATZ.
(SEAL)
EDWABD
F. LEYH.
(SEAL)
FRED'K PH.
HENNIGHAUSEN.
(SEAL)
GEORGE WM.
GAIL.
(SEAL)
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STATE OF MARYLAND, Baltimore City to wit:
Before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace of the State of Mary-
land in and for the City of Baltimore, personally appeared John G.
Morris, Louis P. Hennighausen, Lewis H. Steiner, Charles F. Raddatz,
Edward F. Leyh, Frederick Ph. Hennighausen, and George William
Gail, and did severally acknowledge the foregoing certificate to be their
act and deed.
WILLIAM B. NELSON,
J. P.
I, HENRY D. HARLAN,
one of the Judges of the Supreme Bench
of Baltimore City, do hereby certify, that the foregoing certificate has
been submitted to me for examination and I do further certify, that
the said certificate is in conformity with the provisions of the law,
authorizing the formation of the said corporation
HENRY D. HARLAN.
Recorded April 10th, 1889, at 2.55 P. M.
