AGENT'S ANNUAL REPORT.

October, 1st, 1866.

Office, No. 72 N. Calvert Street.

GENTLEMEN:

I consider it unnecessary to comment upon the design and
operations of a society so well known as ours; especially as
the public mind has been so satisfactorily enlightened by
your former reports.

I will therefore confine myself to a minute detail of statistics.
We had remaining in our "Home" at the close of the year
ending September 30th, 1865, 8 children. 110 additional
ones have been received, and 32 returned to the "Home"
from the country, making in the aggregate 150. Of this
number 114 have been placed in comfortable 'homes; 8 ran
off from the "Home," and for various reasons were not re-
turned; 22 have been returned to their parents; leaving
with us not disposed of 6. Of the 110 received, 16 had both
parents living; 20 had father only; 52 had mother only ;
and 22 were orphans; 1 was received from parents; 19 from
father; 44 from mother; 13 from relatives; 3 from friends ;
3 from Orphans' Court, and 27 from magistrates.

66 were American; 3 English; 29 Irish, and 12 German ;
23 could read and write, 22 could read only, and 65 could
neither read nor write.

Of the 128 placed in homes, including the 14 transferred ;
108 were placed in Maryland; 1 in Pennsylvania; 1 in New
Jersey; 4 in Virginia; 1 in Indiana; 7 in the House of Ref-
uge, and 6 in the Orphans' Asylum. Of the above number,
(128,) 100 were placed with farmers, 3 with mechanics, 7
with store-keepers, 2 with ministers, 2 with physicians, 1
with an editor, and 13 in institutions.

3 Expeditions, comprising companies of children, were
made as follows:

To Triadelphia, Montgomery county, Maryland.

To Easton, Talbot county, Maryland.
8 Expeditions visiting children, as follows:

To Church Hill, Queen Anne's county, Maryland.

To Middletown, Frederick county, Virginia.

To Port Tobacco, Charles county, Maryland.

To Triadelphia, Montgomery county, Maryland.

To White Hall, Baltimore county, Maryland.