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In 1848 Holland rcctived a partially new constitution; State and ChurcU were almost completely separated. The minister of the time was instrumen-
a coiivcniicin at Tlw Hague in IxM, coMsisliil of Iwenlysix delegates from the
tal in calling
which
various Jewish congregations throighoul Holland Many sessions were held in the eiidravor to ar rive at a geuenil slate law for the Jewish con
Amsterdam
gregations, but without anj- appreciable success. Ten years later a new convention was called; it framed a draft for such a law, which, how-
ever, was receiveil with only laiut approval by the two congregations in Amsterdam, which together composi'd more than half of the total JewFinally, after of tiie (oinlry. ish population twenty years' work, the " Nederlandsch Israelietisch
