A Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Boston Together with Legal Suggestions, Laws Applying to DwellingsOld Corner Bookstore, 1891 |
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50 cents Aid Society Almshouse Apply Associated Charities Asylum Beacon st beds Berkeley st Board Boylston st boys Chapel Chardon st charitable contributions Charity Building Charity Organization Society Charlestown Christian Endeavor Class XX Class XXII Club Congregational CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Connected by telephone Court Dispensary Dorchester East Boston employment Episcopal Epworth League Expenditures girls given gives Hanover st head of churches Hospital House incor Industrial School inmates institutions Invested funds Jamaica Plain King's Daughters Ladies Mass Massachusetts Mattapan Mission Monday months note at head Nurses Open 9 Overseers pauper pensions persons poor prisoners pupils Reading-room real estate occupied relief Room Roslindale Roxbury Saturday Secretary Sewing School Shawmut ave sick Society of Christian South Boston Street Sunday Superintendent Temperance Thursday total income Tremont st TRINITY HOUSE Visitors received Warrenton Washington st Wednesday week week-days West Roxbury white or colored women
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Page 225 - All idiots, insane persons, paupers or persons likely to become a public charge, persons suffering from a loathsome or a dangerous contagious disease, persons who have been convicted of a felony or other infamous crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, polygamists.
Page 103 - ... to such young married artificers, under the age of twentyfive years, as have served an apprenticeship in the said town, and faithfully fulfilled the duties required in their indentures, so as to obtain a good moral character from at least two respectable citizens) who are willing to become their sureties, in a bond...
Page 225 - That any alien who shall come into the United States in violation of law may be returned as by law provided, at any time within one year thereafter, at the expense of the person or persons, vessel, transportation company, or corporation bringing such alien into the United States, and if that can not be done, then at the expense of the United States...
Page 304 - ... all persons wandering abroad and begging, or who go about from door to door, or place themselves in the streets, highways, passages, or other public places to beg or receive alms, shall be deemed vagrants.
Page xi - To raise the needy above the need of relief, prevent begging and imposition and diminish pauperism. To accomplish these objects, it is designed:— 1.
Page 83 - Has for its objects: 1st, the practice of a Christian life; 2d, to visit the poor at their dwellings and to carry them succor in kind; 3d, to promote the elementary and religious instruction of poor children; 4th, to distribute moral and religious books; and 5th, to undertake any other charitable work to which their resources are adequate. Its headquarters are in Paris.
Page 296 - ... otherwise instructed for a like period of time in the branches of learning required by law to be taught in the public schools...
Page 220 - The kindred of any such poor person, if any he shall have, in the line or degree of father or grandfather, mother or grandmother, children or grandchildren, by consanguinity, or children by adoption, living within this state and of sufficient ability shall be holden to support such pauper In proportion to such ability.
Page 135 - Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Page 303 - ... lewd, wanton and lascivious persons, in speech or behavior ; common railers and brawlers; persons who are habitually neglectful of their employment or their calling, and do not lawfully provide for themselves, or for the support of their families...