Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of Public Charities, Volume 13 |
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admission admitted Allegheny Allegheny county apartments appropriated arranged Asylum average number blind Board of Public Boys Bradford county Bucks County building cells cent charge colored commissioners committed committee Commonwealth condition convicts county alms-house county prison court Danville deaf and dumb decrease Delaware directors discharged district Dixmont duty erected escapes Esquire expenditures expenses females Girls Harrisburg House of Refuge Huntingdon county improved indigent insane institution labor Lackawanna Lancaster county Lebanon county Legislature Luzerne maintenance males months Montour Norristown number of inmates number of patients occupied officers out-door relief overseers pauper Penn Pennsylvania Hospital Philadelphia Hospital pital poor person poor-house population present Prothonotary Public Charities pupils quarter sessions Receipts received Reform School reformatory resident Schuylkill Schuylkill county Secretary September 30 session settlement superintendent tion Total township treatment vagrant wards Warren Western Hospital Western Penitentiary Westmoreland county whole number work-house
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Page 286 - ... of the same ; the condition of the buildings, grounds and other property connected therewith, and into all other matters pertaining to their usefulness and good management...
Page xiii - ... any convict, lunatic, idiot, or any person unable to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge...
Page 285 - Said board may adopt a seal, and may adopt such by-laws, rules, and regulations for the transaction of the business of the board and the government and management of its affairs, not inconsistent with the laws of this State and of the United States, as it may deem expedient.
Page 289 - Company," passed January thirtieth, eighteen hundred and forty-five. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the twelfth section of the act to which this is a supplement, be and the same is hereby repealed.
Page 255 - ... into three classes. The seats of the senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the first year; of the second class at the expiration of the second year; and of the third class at the expiration of the third year ; so that one class may be elected every year...
Page 260 - ... of any city, township, or borough, or in any house of correction, poorhouse, work-house, or common jail, for a term of not less than thirty days and not exceeding six months...
Page xii - The duty imposed by this section shall be a lien upon the vessels which shall bring such passengers into the United States, and shall be a debt in favor of the United States against the owner or owners of such vessels, and the payment of such duty may be enforced by any legal or equitable remedy : Provided, That no greater sum shall be expended for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, at any port, than shall have been collected at such port.
Page 297 - No law shall be revived, amended, or the provisions thereof extended, or conferred by reference to its title only, but so much thereof as is revived, amended, extended, or conferred, shall be reenacted, and published at length.
Page xiii - That the Secretary of the Treasury shall establish such regulations and rules and issue from time to time such instructions, not inconsistent with law, as he shall deem best calculated to protect the United States and immigrants into the United States from fraud and loss and for carrying out the provisions of this act...
Page 285 - Governor shall be ex-officio a member of said Board, and the President thereof. Appointments to fill vacancies caused by death, resignation, or removal, before the expiration of such terms, may be made for the residue of terms in the same manner as original appointments. Sec. 2. That the Board of State Charities shall be provided with a suitable room in the State House.