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[_Signed by the Directors_.] GEORGE RIPLEY. MINOT PRATT. CHARLES
A. DANA.
Brook Farm, Mass., Jan. 18, 1844.
This constitution was largely like the first one, but varied from it in
the following particulars:--
"The department of Industry shall be managed in groups and series as
far as is practicable, and shall consist of three primary series, to
wit: Agricultural, Mechanical and Domestic Industry. The chief of each
group to be elected weekly, and the chief of each series once in two
months by the members thereof, subject to the approval of the General
Direction."
"Persons wishing to become members must first reside on the place as
applicants for one month."
"Applicants who have passed acceptably through their term may become
candidates, and remain in this new relation a month more, when they may
be admitted as Associates."
"Personal property may be received as stock by the Direction of Finance
when it shall be deemed advantageous to the Association."
"Persons shall, on becoming residents on the domain, deliver an exact
inventory of all the furniture and implements which they may retain as
private property, to be filed for reference in the office of the
Direction."
"New groups and series may be formed from time to time for the
prosecution of different and new branches of industry.
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