enthält: Protokoll der Beratungen zwischen EMIK und CEK vom 13.10-12.11.1996 / contains: Minutes of the consultations between EMIK and CEK of 13.10-12.11.1996
Present: Rottmann, Mader, J. Zimmerman (as substitute for Locher), Laissle, Strömberg (also as secretary); Meyer added in parentheses. Locher absent because of the severe illness of one of his children. Although the areas around the Pekyi district…
The protocoll contents offers and accounts of expenditures to date. The conference also recommends the application by Catechist Obeng for £1 on account of his recently born son, which the missionaries sponsor on account of the high cost of living in…
School exercise book format, the first 33 pages have been numbered by hand (but 33 pages is probably somewhat less than half the whole book). Condition: severely damaged by insects/worms, and towards the end heavy ink-spread makes the documents…
Foolscap format duplicated records (handwriting/lithograph), 504 pp., with a MS index at the rear. Evidently the copy belonging originally to Rev. Diez. See C-5-5.20 for an English translation of the title and reference numbers of parallel copies of…
Foolscap format, 399 pp. numbered by hand. Condition: good. A set of lithographed duplicated minutes. Other copies of these minutes are to be found in C-1.10, C-5-5.21d and C-5-4.3.
Asks for a grant of £1 p.a. to each of their catechist/teacher families on the grounds that salt is not only necessary for the preparation of food, but also for the purchase of food at some times, e.g. in May-June and November-December 1886. The…
Reporting the stationing of Assistant Catechist P. Tieko in Nkwatia - the work there must go forward, while in Abetifi it has not proved possible to run a worthwhile school actually in the town. His duties will include the bringing forward of the…
In the organisation of work on the return of the Ramseyers Schmid is made station Präses (Chairman). Ramseyer is assigned mainly to preaching journeys. In subscripts written by (inter al) Eisenschmid it appears that the idea ist that Ramseyer should…
The first subject under discussion was Süss’ defection to Gyadam. The report includes a copy of Süss first letter from Gyadam dated 6 Sep 1853. He arrived on the 4th, and since has been living in the chief’s house, the chief giving him his food. Most…
Section 1 of the conference is a discussion leading to the fixing of a scale of wages for BM catechists and teachers, with a differential allowing for the higher cost of living on the coast. Section II is concerned with Süss and Gyadam. Little is…
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