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At the next meeting of the Synagogue Council a notice of motion stood upon the agenda in the name of the _Parnass_ himself:
'That this Council views with the greatest reprobation the breach of the Fourth Commandment committed weekly by a member of the congregation, and calls upon him either to resign his seat, with the burial and other rights appertaining thereto, or to close his business on the Sabbath.'