It has become customary for the Governors of States to appoint such representatives as they specially desire to have in attendance, and it is hoped that next year every State will send such delegates. It is expected, also, that the Dominion of Canada will be fully represented. The Papers and Reports prepared for the Cleveland Conference are printed in full, except a few not received in time. The order of printing is not the same as that of reading, in all cases, and the discussion is not always reported in full. Copies of these Conference Proceedings may be ordered of any member of the Publication Committee, and particularly of F. B. Sanborn, Concord, Mass. A copy will be sent to each member of the American Social Science Association, and will take the place of a number of the "Journal of Social Science." No copies remain of the Proceedings of the Conference of 1876 or 1877. The price of the Proceedings of the Conference of 1880 is, for single copies, $1; ten copies, $7.50; 25 copies, $12; 50 copies, $23; and any greater number at that rate. To subscribers there will be a discount from these rates. ERRATA.-On page xxv, line five, for $102,000, read $102,500; page 176 and page 227, for Dupoy, read Dupuy. lxviii PAPERS AND DEBATES OF THE CONFERENCE. . 1-323 ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT, GEN. R. BRINKERHOFF. Our 1. Report of the Standing Committee, by H. W. Lord 60-74 2. Why we need a National Association for the Protec- tion of the Insane, by George M. Beard, M. D. . 152-165 176-241 3. The Massachusetts Statutes relating to Juvenile Offen- 4. Outdoor Relief by Local Authorities under State Supervision, by Henry B. Wheelwright . . . IX. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CRIMINAL LAW 1. Tramp Laws and Indeterminate Sentences, by F. X. PUBLIC BUILDINGS FOR DEPENDENTS AND DELINQUENTS 1. Report of the Committee, by Gen. Brinkerhoff. BUSINESS OF THE CONFERENCE. OPENING SESSION. The Seventh Annual Conference of Charities and Correction convened in Case Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, June 29, 1880, and was called to order at 8, P. M., by the retiring President, General BRINKERHOFF, of Mansfield, Ohio, who introduced Governor FOSTER, of Ohio. The Governor of Ohio extended a welcome to the Conference on behalf of the State, as follows: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is a great pleasure to me personally to be honored with the privilege of welcoming to the State of Ohio a body of citizens from all parts of the nation, engaged as you are in a work the importance and value of which cannot be estimated in dollars and cents. The State in which your Conference is held, we think among the foremost in the extent and success of her charitable and reforma tory institutions. Yet we recognize the fact that we have much to learn, and your Conference is confidently looked to for further contributions to the store of information already gathered upon the important subjects you have met to consider. The problems you have to deal with are complex and difficult in the extreme. Little by little, through the action and quiet energies of the thoughtful, benevolent and self-sacrificing people of the past and present, great progress has been made in the direction of the reform of criminals, the prevention of crime, the dispensation of charity to the poor and unfortunate, and improved methods in the treatment and education of the insane, the blind, the deaf and dumb and the feeble-minded. The public mind is now convinced of the propriety of the maintenance of public charities at public expense, and that such support is a matter of economy, dollars and cents considered. Among the hopeful signs of the present, is the apparent willingness of the wealthy to give the subjects you have met to discuss, their earnest attention, and to contribute of their private means large sums of money to well organized and intelligent private charities. Your work is largely a labor of love, your compensation, the consciousness of contributing to the comfort and happiness of the poor and unfortunate. I believe that the world is growing wiser and better, and I look with confidence for the success of your deliberations, feeling certain that your meeting will not only be one of personal pleasure to yourselves, but your discussions will be valuable contributions to the science upon which you are deliberating. Through your labors great improvements in the methods of management and correction, are as certain as anything in the future can be. Your quiet and unobtrusive labors are as valuable to the public as any in which human agencies are engaged. The portion of society for whom you specially labor is without the aid of party organization to assist in your work. On the contrary, one of the evils with which you have to contend, is the too often ill-advised interference of party organizations insisting upon the control of public institutions for partisan ends and purposes. I trust you may succeed in a marked degree in correcting this unmitigated evil. [Applause.] It is not my purpose, nor does it become one who has so little special knowledge upon the subjects to be here discussed as myself, to detain you with suggestions as to the line of your discussions, or as to the discharge of your duty. While we in Ohio take a just pride in the extent and success of public institutions and private charities, we are not unmindful of the fact that we yet have much to learn and much to do to make them what a good Christian people ought to aspire to. I doubt not that upon all occasions our good people will be found zealously willing to adapt themselves to the line of progress and reform to be marked out by the intelligent and benevolent body of citizens before me. It is not, I trust, inappropriate for me to say, that in this beautiful city of Cleveland, you will find the private charities superior in every way, and possibly in proportion to population and wealth of the city, not surpassed in this or any other country. These institutions, Jewish and Christian, Catholic and Protestant, are thoroughly organized, successfully managed and handsomely endowed in the wealth and sympathies of her good people. Expressing my fullest confidence in your intelligence and devotion to the cause in which you are engaged, and the value to the world for your deliberations, I bid you welcome to the State of Ohio whose good people appreciate your presence among them. [Applause.] Mayor Herrick, of Cleveland, then added the welcome of the city as follows: MAYOR HERRICK'S ADDRESS. Ladies and Gentlemen: It is no uncommon occurrence to be called upon to welcome to our city distinguished assemblages. Yet never before have I had the pleasure of addressing a Conference convened for purposes so purely unselfish, whose objects are wholly philanthropic, comprised of so many distinguished gentlemen from different parts of our own land and from our sister country, the Dominion of Canada; who, from a common sympathy in the welfare of mankind, are assembled solely with a purpose of devising plans and means for the improvement of the condition of their more unfortunate fellow-men. It is not difficult to fathom the motives which actuate men to meet in convention for the |