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Excerpt from Documents Relative to the House of Refuge: Instituted by the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the City of New-York, in 1824
And when your Honorable Body shall take into consideration, the peculiarly exposed situation of the city of new-y ork, to the migrations of the wandering and restless subjects of poverty and vice, not only from foreign parts, but from our Ovvn country and state, the Managers of this Society entertain the con fident expectation, that your Honorable Body will feel the necessity and propriety of extending towards them such portion of the patronage Of the State, as shall enable them to erect the necessary buildings, and to introduce extensive and permanent plans for the employment and education of such juvenile Of tenders as shall be committed to their charge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
