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This page continues the article entitled Asylum (or House of Refuge for Orphans), which started on Page 214.
The next article is entitled Audley's rents, and starts on Page 221.
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they will be immediately taken into
consideration, and have all respectful re-
gard shewn to them.
IV.  Those Gentlemen and Ladies,
who have already subscribed lesser sums
than thirty guineas, by making up their
subscriptions to that sum, within a year,
will be entered in the subscription book
as perpetual Guardians.
V.  There is to be an annual general
meeting of the Guardians on the second
Wednesday in March.
VI.  A general quarterly meeting is to
be held on the second Wednesday in
July, the second Wednesday in January,
the second Wednesday in April, and the
second Wednesday in October, for au-
diting the accounts, and making laws
and rules for the government of the
charity, and for other business.
VII.  A Committee is appointed, to
consist of thirty Guardians, who are to
meet every Wednesday at eleven o'clock
in the forenoon at the Asylum, to tran-
sact the business of the charity; and they
are, from time to time, to report their
proceedings to the following general
court, and any three of the said gentle-
men constitute a quorum.  In these
Com-
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Committees are a President, Vice-presi-
dent, and a Treasurer.
VIII.  The officers and servants of the
house, are a Physician, two Surgeons,
an Apothecary and a Chaplain.
A Secretary, who keeps the accounts
of the hospital, and does all such other
business as is commonly done by Secre-
taries, Clerks, and Registers, at other
charities.
A Matron, who superintends the af-
fairs of the house, takes care of the pro-
visions and furniture, delivers an account
of the current expences weekly to the
Secretary, to be laid before the Com-
mittee.  She is to see that the children
are properly employed, that they are at-
tentive to their learning, and that they
behave with decency; that the teachers
do their duty, and that they treat the
children with humanity.  The servants
under her, are teachers of reading, knit-
ting, sewing, &c. a cook, a house-maid
and a servant man.
IX.  The objects to be admitted are
Orphans, the daughters of necessitous
parents, residing in parishes where they
have no relief, and deserted girls within
the bills of mortality, from eight to
twelve