of 8 and 9 March 1848
[1] Minutes of the community meeting of 8 March 1848.
President:
K. Schapper.
Elected as {
Secretary:
K. Marx.
Schapper: proposes that we constitute ourselves as the Paris Circle, no longer as
individual communities.
Seconded by Marx and several others. Carried.
Hermann admitted;
Discussion on the re-admission of the expelled community members;
Born reports on the assembly at the Café l’Europe; likewise Sterbitzki. By a large majority it was resolved not to go to that café,
where Decker and Venedey are holding a meeting.
Engler, Buchfink and Vogler (Weitlingians) admitted unanimously.
Unanimously resolved: the three above-named League members are charged with admitting those members of the Weitlingian community whom they deem
suitable.
Schilling admitted unanimously.
For the public workers’ society the following are accepted as:
President:
H. Bauer.
Vice-President:
Hermann.
2 Secretaries:
Born and Vogel.
Treasurer:
Moll.
3 Stewards:
Buchfink, Schapper, Horne.
Agreed that the president shall address [the assembly] as: Friends; everyone else
as he wishes.
Marx to present a draft statutes for the workers’ society.
Karl Marx: Minutes of the meeting of the Paris Circle of the Communist League of
8 March 1848. First page of the manuscript

Minutes of the Meetings of the Paris Circle of 8 and 9 March 1848
[2] The public society shall be called Club of German Workers.
Wilhelm Höger admitted as a League member: (proposed by
Schapper, seconded by H. Bauer.)
The premises of the public society shall be in the centre of the city.
Some members are charged with finding suitable premises.
The League meeting shall take place at: No. 6 St. Louis St. Honoré.
Sterbitzki proposes Hermann, who is admitted.
C. Marx
C. Schapper
Secretary
President
Meeting of 9 March. 9 o’clock in the evening.
Marx presents his draft statutes, which are discussed.
Article 1 carried; against 2 votes minority. Art. 2 unanimously
carried; likewise Art. 3, Art. 4, Art. 5 and Art. 6.
The draft statutes are thus adopted unchanged. The statutes
of the Communist League are read out by the secretary. After hearing the statutes, the newly
admitted members declare that they are joining the Communist League.
Marx proposes that all League members shall give their names and addresses.
This is discussed and finally resolved that every League member shall give the name under which he is known here and his
address.
[3] Schapper proposes that 5 more persons be added to the President and Secretary
to form the Circle authority of Paris.
One shall be elected from each of the 4 communities. Election to be postponed until the
next meeting.
Schapper reports on the Central Authority. On Schapper’s
proposal it is resolved that everyone who speaks shall rise and remove his hat.
At Marx’s proposal, the Central Authority shall at the next meeting report on the situation of the League in general.

Born, who had been sent to report on the assembly in the riding school, returns after 3/4 of an hour and describes the
wretched state of that society. The next meeting will take place next Saturday at 8 o’clock, Café Belge, Rue Grenelle St. Honoré.
At the close of the meeting the members give their names and
addresses to the secretary. Marx proposes that all League members
wear a red ribbon. Unanimously carried.
On Schapper’s proposal it is resolved that one person shall buy a blood-red ribbon for all. B. Sax is charged with this.