AI English Translation, Pages 251-275
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Number — 817
Date — 27 / 10 / 1947
Honorable Gentlemen
Members of the Association for Aiding Poor Girls
Ibrahim Tweig
Edward Yusuf Samih, Attorney
Israel Nassim Hessai
Anwar Zalkha, Attorney
Daoud Salman Yehuda
Salman Sion Shamna, Attorney
Shimon Sion Sofer
Sion Shua Gigi, Attorney
Abdullah Sion Shamna, Attorney
Ezra Shaul Badiol
Meir Shaul Basri
Greetings
I request the honor of your presence at the Community Presidency headquarters at six-thirty in the evening
on Thursday, 30 / 10 / 1947, for the purpose of deliberating on the status of the Association for Aiding Poor Girls
for Marriage.
Please accept our highest respect;
Sincerely
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President of the Community
⟦Sh. D. Siam Sabri⟧
⟦Wada Samir Dehn⟧
⟦Ibrahim Shukur Hashie'⟧
Meir Shaul Basri
Sion Shua
Salman Shamna
Sion Sion Sofer
For Filing
Association for Aiding Poor Girls
A
Internal Regulations
of the Association
for the Aid of Poor
Jewish Girls for Marriage
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Al-Sharqiya Press - Baghdad
Ministry of the Interior
Directorate of Rights
Number / 22070
Date 15 / 10 / 45
Applicants for founding the Society for Aiding Poor Girls for Marriage
Mr. Ibrahim Eliyahu Shashua and his companions
Subject: - Founding a society
With reference to your request submitted to us via the letter of the Presidency of the Jewish
Community in Baghdad No. 8294 and dated 26 / 6 / 45
Based on the authority granted to us under Article
Seven of the Law on the Formation of Societies for the year 1922, we authorize
you to establish a society in Baghdad under the name (Society for Aiding Poor Girls
for Marriage) provided that you follow the provisions of the aforementioned law
and the bylaws attached to your request after introducing the following amendments to it.
1- Replacing the phrase (to the administrative committee) mentioned in
Article four thereof with the phrase (to the society)
Bylaws of the Association for Assisting Poor
Israelite Girls for Marriage
Founding of the Association
1- This association is called "The Association for Assisting Poor
Israelite Girls for Marriage".
2- This association was founded for the purpose of assisting poor Israelite
girls for marriage with material assistance to facilitate the matter of
their marriage or finding various jobs and professions for them through which
they obtain money that facilitates the matter of their marriage, and it has no involvement
in politics.
3- This association was founded by - Ibrahim Eliyahu Shashua
and Haskeil Murad the lawyer and Haskeil Ezra Shoa Meir
2- Placing the phrase (Subject to the provisions of this system) at
the beginning of Article 12 thereof and adding the phrase (provided that all of
this shall not be effective until the approval of the competent
official authority is obtained) to the end of it.
Signature
Minister of Interior
A copy to - Ministry of Social Affairs
With reference to its letter No. 13581
dated 12 / 7 / 1945.
General Police Directorate
With reference to its letter No. 1383
dated 11 / 8 / 1945
Administrative District of Baghdad
With reference to its letter No. 15521
dated 3 / 10 / 1945.
Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad.
( 2 )
And Salman Ezra Salman Shahrabani and Shaul Salih Jouri
And Murad Ishaq Cohen and Yaqub Meir Al-Sayegh
- and they are those who constitute the first administrative committee, and this
committee has the rights and duties of the administrative committee
stipulated in this system.
4 - The center of the association is in Baghdad, and the association may own
or rent a house for the purpose of using it as a headquarters for its meetings
and its activities.
Formation of the Association
5 - A - The number of members of the association is unlimited, and the members are
the individuals who pay an annual subscription of not less
than one dinar, and they have the right to participate in voting.
There is no objection to accepting subscriptions of less than this
amount, provided that their owners do not acquire the status of membership.
( 3 )
B - No one under twenty years of
age or who has been deprived of civil rights shall be accepted for membership.
6 - The members of this association shall hold an ordinary general meeting at
the beginning of every three years to elect a management committee
for the aforementioned term, and the management committee must prepare for this
meeting at the appointed time.
7 - An extraordinary meeting may be held at any time during the
three years whenever circumstances require the performance of some
necessary tasks, and these sessions are held either (1)
by a direct decision of the administrative committee or (2) based on a
written request submitted by at least twenty members to
the secretary, in which they state the purpose for the meeting.
8 - A - The attendance of one-third of the association's members is considered a quorum
for the convening of the general meeting, and if a quorum is not achieved
( 7 )
until the committee cancels them or the general meeting annuls them. However,
all of that shall not be effective until after obtaining
the approval of the competent official authority.
13 - Decisions are issued by the committee by majority, and each of
those present at the meeting has one vote, while the chairman
has one additional vote which he uses in the event of equal
opinions.
14 - The secretary records the minutes of the meetings and the committee's work
in a special register known as the minutes register, and it is signed by
the members present at the end of each meeting, and the committee
must organize a book to record the names of participants
and donors and the amounts of their subscriptions and donations under
a serial number; likewise, it shall adopt the necessary books
for accounts, and the committee shall decide what is necessary for the validity of
their maintenance, and the chairman or his deputy in participation with
( 4 )
The meeting shall be postponed to another time not exceeding a month.
In the postponed meeting, business shall be conducted at the
appointed time, provided that the number of members present is
not less than twenty members.
B - Decisions in the general meeting shall be taken by a majority
of votes, and the chairman of the meeting shall have a casting vote in the
event of a tie.
C - The Chairman of the Management Committee is the one who presides over general
meetings, and in his absence, the Vice-Chairman shall preside, and in the
absence of both, those present shall elect from among themselves someone
to preside over the session.
D - At the ordinary general meeting, the members shall appoint
two auditors to examine the association's accounts for the period
preceding the meeting and to present a detailed statement thereof.
( 5 )
The Administrative Committee and its Duties
9- A- The Administrative Committee shall consist of seven members elected
at the general meeting and shall manage the association's affairs for a period of three
years, and they shall elect from among themselves a president, a vice
president, and a secretary.
B- The committee may, from time to time, appoint a person or
persons to participate with it in an advisory capacity for a purpose
or purposes specific to the association's affairs.
10- Committee members may be re-elected by majority vote upon
the conclusion of their term, and if a member of the committee resigns,
the committee shall elect another person in their place. However, if
the number of original committee members resigning
one after another reaches four, the entire committee shall be re-elected,
and until that is completed, the committee remains in office with what
( 8 )
The Secretary shall give a receipt for the amounts received
by the association, signed and stamped with the committee's seal
and numbered with a serial number.
15- Signing checks, contracts, and official documents
and every other document on behalf of the association,
and representing the association in courts and before official authorities
in general, belongs to the chairman of the committee with the Secretary
or the vice-chairman with the Secretary, acting jointly.
16- The Secretary must prepare every year a statement of the association's activities
during the year and a table showing the association's financial
position at the end of December of the previous year,
and an income and expenditure account for the twelve months
ending in December; these tables and the statement
shall be presented to the association at its ordinary general meeting.
( 6 )
remains in it from the members, and these members must call the
members of the ⟦the⟧ society immediately to a general meeting to elect a new committee
and no action is valid from them except this work and continuing in
conducting regular administrative business without
spending anything not previously decided upon until the election of
the new committee.
11- A quorum for the committee is achieved by the presence of four of its members
and if the president and vice-president are absent from the meeting
those present shall elect one of them to chair that
meeting.
12- ⟦The⟧ administrative committee, while observing the provisions of this system,
is authorized to establish provisions it deems necessary to meet temporary
needs and to secure the interest of the society or its work system
and these provisions shall remain in effect and must be observed
* 9 *
17- The association's funds consist of subscriptions, donations,
and gifts collected by it or returned from its members or
others, and from the proceeds of the concerts it holds, and from
the yield of endowments dedicated to it, and from the allocations
of the community fund decided by the Community Council
from time to time, and from all other sources decided by
the Community Council or the General Assembly.
18- All lands and roofed properties purchased by the association
shall be registered as property in its name at the Land Registry Office (Tabu), to be disposed of
as owners do, in accordance with what it deems appropriate for the association's purposes.
19- a- The funds and general management of the association are entrusted to
the Administrative Committee, which is responsible for keeping the books,
controlling the accounts, collecting revenues, and spending
funds. It has the right to employ staff, collectors,
and servants as needed, while observing
economy.
* 10 *
b - Every expenditure shall be by the decision and approval of the committee.
20 - The Association's funds shall be kept in the bank designated by
the committee in Baghdad, and sums shall be withdrawn from the bank on
the account and in the name of the Association. It is permissible to keep amounts
less than one hundred dinars with one of the money changers.
General Provisions
21 - a - Every proposal to amend these bylaws requires a majority of
two-thirds of the members present at the general meeting. If
a proposal to amend these bylaws is accepted or rejected in
an extraordinary general meeting, the same matter may not be
reintroduced for discussion in another extraordinary general meeting
before the Association's regular general meeting.
b - Every amendment to these bylaws must be reported immediately to
the competent authorities after the approval of the Ministry of Interior.
* 11 *
22 - The decision to dissolve the association and liquidate it is entrusted to a general
meeting, and this decision must be confirmed in another
general meeting, and at least twenty days must pass between
the holding of the two aforementioned meetings. To decide on the dissolution of
the association and its liquidation, the approval of two-thirds of the members
present in each of the two general meetings held
for this purpose is required. If the decision to dissolve the association
and liquidate it is made according to this article, the association in
its general meeting may decide to transfer all of its holdings
of funds whatsoever to the Communal Council
to distribute that to similar charitable associations.
Members of the Association
President | — Heskel Murad, Lawyer
Vice President | — Ibrahim Eliyahu Shashoua
Secretary and Accountant | — Salman Ezra Shahrabani
Members | — Heskel Ezra Shoua Meir
| Shaoul Saleh Gouri
| Murad Ishaq Cohen
| Yaqub Meir Al-Sayegh
Baghdad on May 25, 1948
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452
25 / 5 / 948
His Eminence Rabbi Sassoon Khedhouri, the Respected
President of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
After greetings,
It is with regret that I inform you that, due to my many preoccupations and my inability
to practice my duties as a member of the Society for Aiding Poor Girls to Marry, I am unfortunately forced to
submit this resignation from the membership of the respected society, hoping you will kindly accept it. I would like to take this
opportunity to express my deep appreciation for the friendly cooperation I have always encountered from Your Eminence
and all the members.
Please accept, Your Eminence, the expression of my highest gratitude and respect;
Sincerely,
⟦Signature⟧
Ibrahim Eliyahu Shamoun
Copy to: His Eminence the President of the Society for Aiding Poor Girls to Marry - for your kind information.
A1
This resignation was not accepted
For filing
According to the decision of the Administrative Committee
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The Haham Bashi in Baghdad
Head of the Jewish Community in Baghdad
Baghdad, October 22, 1947
To the Honorable Notable Member of the General Council
After greetings and respect,
Due to the lack of a legal quorum at the meeting I invited you to hold on Tuesday evening,
corresponding to October 21, 1947, I invite you to kindly attend the headquarters of the Community Presidency at
five o'clock in the afternoon on Thursday, October 30, 1947, to hold the meeting for a second time
in accordance with Article 14 of the Jewish Community Regulation No. 36 of 1931.
Please accept my respects.
Head of the Community
Iraqi Government
Department: Baghdad Province Education
Office: Personnel
Number: ⟦877⟧
Date: 15 / 1 / 1949
15 Rabi' al-Awwal 1368
Subject:
To the Presidency of the Jewish Community
In view of what was stated in the inspector's memorandum No. 9 dated 13 / 1 / 1949.
Please inform us of the fate of the Sewing School for the Aid of Poor Jewish Girls located opposite the Al-Khaski
Mosque, as it was found with its doors closed.
We would like the answer to be returned urgently.
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
A copy to " -
Ministry of Education - Private Education
General Inspectorate of Education
Personnel.
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Special Number 602
Date 16 / 1 / 949
Reply
The aforementioned school has closed
its doors due to the lack of necessary funds
to continue its operations.
N G / 15
Department Copy
882
22 / 1 / 1949
To :-
Society for Aiding Poor Girls for Marriage
We enclose herewith a true copy of the letter received by us from the Directorate
of Education of Baghdad Province No. 877 dated 15 / 1 / 1949 regarding the school belonging
to your society, requesting that you provide us with your views on this matter urgently.
⟦signature⟧
Head of the Community
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Iraqi Government
Baghdad Province Education Department:
Personnel Office:
Number: 877
Date: 15 / 1 / 1949
15 Rabi' al-Awwal 1368
To the Presidency of the Jewish Community
With reference to what was stated in the Inspector's memorandum No. 9 dated 13 / 1 / 1949.
Please inform us of the fate of the Sewing School for the Aid of Poor Jewish Women located opposite
the Al-Khassaki Mosque, as it was found with its doors closed.
We wish to receive a reply urgently.
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
A copy to -
Ministry of Education - Private Education
General Inspectorate of Education
Personnel
(True Copy)
⟦illegible⟧
A. A.
Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number { 3531 President
5452 Secretary
Number: 887
Subject:
Date: 1/20/1949
To:-
The Association for Assisting Poor Girls for Marriage
We enclose herewith a true copy of the letter received by us from the Directorate of
Baghdad Provincial Education, No. 877, dated 1/15/1949, concerning the school belonging
to your association, requesting you to provide us with your views on this matter urgently.
⟦signature⟧
President of the Community
My dear respected Salim Effendi
I hope you will send the following reply:-
The association has closed the doors of the aforementioned sewing school
as it does not have enough revenue to manage it,
and the aforementioned school has been closed for more than six
months.
Sincerely
⟦signature⟧
⟦illegible⟧
⟦Department Copy⟧
Closing of a school
882
1/20/1949
Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province
Greetings,
With reference to your letter numbered 877 and dated 1/15/1949
The Society for Assisting Poor Girls for Marriage has informed us that it
has decided to close the sewing school belonging to it and located opposite the Al-Khassaki Mosque
due to the lack of necessary funds for this school to continue operating.
Please accept our respects;
⟦signature⟧
718
Head of the Community
A/1
Closing a School
882
20 / 1 / 1949
Directorate of Education, Baghdad Province
Greetings,
With reference to your letter numbered 877 dated 15 / 1 / 1949
The Association for Assisting Poor Girls for Marriage has informed us that
it has decided to close the sewing school belonging to it, located opposite the Al-Khassaki Mosque
due to the unavailability of the necessary funds for the school to continue its operations.
Please accept our respects;
⟦illegible⟧
Head of the Community
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Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Incoming Number ⟦614⟧
Date ⟦28 / 1 / 1949⟧
Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province
Personnel
Number / M A M / ⟦1285⟧
Date ⟦27 / 1 / 1949⟧
⟦Rabi' al-Awwal 1368⟧
Statement
Based on what was stated in the letter of the Presidency of the Jewish Community numbered 88 and dated
20 / 1 / 1949
It has been decided to close the Sewing School belonging to the Association for Assisting Poor Girls for Marriage, located
opposite the Al-Hasaki Mosque.
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
A copy to -
Ministry of Education - Private Education
General Education Inspectorate
Presidency of the Jewish Community - to return the written license for the aforementioned
school
Personnel.
⟦Saved in the file⟧
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