A table showing the weekly report of the number of children in the House, with the average number, for the year 1829.

DATE. 1829. boys girls total|| DATE. 1829. [boys girls total

Dr.

The Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents, in Account Current

with Cornelius Du Bois, Treasurer.

1829 To Cash, Repairs and additions to the buildings upon the

Jan. 1

To Balance carried down,

Jan. 1By Balance brought down, († See note 2, next page.)

$5797/12

NOTE 1-Upon Tax on Tavern Licences, and Theatres.

It will be noticed in the preceding statistics, how large a proportion of the Parents of children sent to the Refuge, are intemperate more than one half of the whole number: viz. of 690 children received, 401 of their parents drink ardent spirits to excess. The examination and histories of the children, furnish the melancholy fact, that upwards of 150 children of both sexes, commenced stealing, and other vices, for the purpose of being furnished with the means to frequent Theatres, and to obtain Rum.--There are now two children in the Refuge, (of the ages of 12 and 14 years,) who were previous to being sent there, in the daily practice of drinking from 8 to 12 glasses of rum or whiskey, and one of them has drunk a quart of ardent spirits in a day, when they were successful in pilfering property, which could be exchanged for it, or which they could sell for the value of 20 to 30 cents.

† NOTE 2-In relation to the balance of Funds on hand.

The Building at the Refuge, appropriated for the Boys, has 128 Dormitories, or sleeping rooms. It will be noticed in the "Weekly Report of the number of boys in the House," that a larger number has constantly been in the Institution during the past year, than could be accomodated with separate sleeping cells, (an object very important in the system of Reformation,) and that from & to 20 of the smaller Boys, have been compelled to sleep upon the floors of the School-hall, (for the want of additional accommodations,) which is very unsafe, inconvenient and unhealthy. At several periods, during the past year, the managers were obliged (reluctantly) to notify the police and commissioners of the Alms House, to withhold sending Boys to the Refuge, not having accommodations for them. The interest of the Institution requires an additional building, for sleeping apartments, an eating room, and bake house. And the managers have authorised their Acting Committee to contract for the erection of a building, to connect the two present houses, which will furnish accomodations for 100 more Boys. The Building will probably be ready to be occupied by the 1st of May next, and will cost, furnished, (from estimates received) about 8000 Dollars: which will absorb all the funds now on hand, and the balance will have to be paid from the receipts of the year 1830.

NATHANIEL C. HART, Superintendent.

RICHARD WYMOND, Assistant Superintendent.

REBECCA ORAM, Matron.

SARAH ANN ORAM, Assistant Matron.

DAVID TERRY, Jun. Teacher.

SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT, &c.

1831.

The Managers of the House of Refuge, proceed to lay before the "Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents," the Sixth Annual Statement of the Institution committed to their charge. It would be an easy task for the Managers, at the present time, to extend their Report by a renewed, or an enlarged exposition of the nature and importance, of the system of Juvenile Reform, which has now been steadily prosecuted by them, throughout a period of six years. But, so fully have these points been illustrated, by the early Reports and publications of the Society, and so distinctly were they recapitulated in the last Annual Report, that it is deemed to be altogether inexpedient, at the present time, to occupy the attention of the Society, or the public, with a repetition of these arguments. The minds of all those of our citizens, who have taken the trouble to read our Reports, and to examine, deliberately, the question of a Juvenile Penitentiary, distinct from that of adults, and governed in conformity to the clear distinctions which separate the two classes of public offenders, will, we confidently believe, unite with one voice, in the importance of such a distinction. If there are any of our fellow citizens, whose judgment and character, claim for them an influence in the community, who have declined their assent, to the value of such an institution as ours, we venture to believe, that they are among those who have never visited our establishment, and examined the history of its inmates.

It is no small satisfaction to the Managers, to be able to say, that the experience they have gained, in the knowledge of juvenile crime, and the causes which lead to it, have greatly tended to increase their convictions, of the humanity and necessity of such a charity.