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Página 97 - ... incorporated charitable reformatory, or other institution, and when practicable, to such as is governed by persons of the same religious faith as the parents of the child...
Página xxxix - States, and for that purpose he shall have power to enter into contracts with such State commission, board, or officers as may be designated for that purpose by the governor of any state to take charge of the local affairs of immigration in the ports within said State...
Página xxxvii - ... such ship or vessel on her last voyage to said port, not being a citizen of the United States, and who shall have, within the last...
Página xli - We are of opinion," said the Court, "that this whole subject has been confided to Congress by the Constitution ; that Congress can more appropriately and with more acceptance exercise it than any other body known to our law, State or national...
Página 145 - ... of whom we can ask, whom we may seek for the treasures of His knowledge and love. We may knock at this door assured that there will be, in accordance with our varied conditions, our varied needs, an opening to us. To those who have not wilfully transgressed a Divine Law, if there be any such ; who have done the best they could under the circumstances in which they have been placed, in living out the instructions that have given them by those under whose care they have been placed, there will...
Página 105 - Within thirty days after any meeting at which amendment of this charter has been adopted, articles of amendment signed and sworn to by the president, treasurer and a majority of the directors, setting forth such amendment...
Página 7 - no indictment found and presented by a grand jury in any District or Circuit or other court of the United States shall be deemed insufficient, nor shall the trial, judgment or other proceeding thereon be affected by reason of any defect or imperfection in matter of form only, which shall not tend to the prejudice of the defendant.
Página lxix - It shall be the duty of such board of control to use all diligence to provide suitable places in good families for all such pupils as have received an elementary education ; and any other pupils may be placed in good families on condition that their education shall be provided for in the public schools of the town or city where they may reside.
Página xlvii - Hospital, now building; namely, the Worcester, the Taunton, and the Northampton hospitals. To this class also belongs the Insane Asylum at Tewksbury, which is a part of the State Almshouse there ; and in one respect all these hospitals might be classed among the pauper establishments, inasmuch as from two-thirds to five-sixths of their patients are paupers.
Página 166 - ... indentured until the age of twenty-one, and girls to the age of eighteen. The institution now has its full number of 100 children ; the average number for the past few years has been 90. The amount received for board annually is but a trifling sum. The permanent fund of the Home amounts to nearly $28,000. The yearly expenses of the institution — about $11,500 — are in part met by the income of its funds, and in part by individual gifts, annual subscriptions, and collections in the churches....

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