EXTRACT

From a report of our agent, of an expedition made to the coun-
try this year, with a company of fifteen children, ranging
in age from six to sixteen years.

GENTLEMEN: Having on the 24th of February last, received
a communication from Hon. James H. McNeal, Secretary of
our Local Committee at Easton, Talbot Co., Md., requesting
that a company of our children be brought over to his county,
I in accordance with instructions received from our President,
Wm. B. Canfield, Esq., collected the children at that time in
the "Home" and formed them into a company as follows,
viz:—

No. 518, 16 years—Received from father. Driven from
home by cruel step-mother.

No. 535, 14 years—Received from magistrate. Refugee;
father died, deserted by mother.

No. 558,14 years—Received from father. Very peor; mother
dead.

No. 551, 13 years—Received from magistrate. Father
dead; mother vagrant.

No. 556, 12 years—Received from mother. Very poor;
father dead.

No. 547, 12 years—Received from magistrate. Parents
vagrants.

No. 552, 10 years—Received from magistrate. Father
dead; mother vagrant.

No. 548, 9 years—Received from magistrate. Parents va-
grants.

No. 408, 9 years—Received from magistrate. Vagrant and
thief. Father dead; mother a vagrant.

No. 543,8 years—Received from father. Very poor; mother
dead.

No. 544, 8 years—Received from mother. Very poor;
deserted by father.

No. 530, 7 years—Received from mother. Deserted by
father.

No. 534, 7 years—Received from Hon. H. L. Bond. Mother
common vagrant.

No. 549, 7 years—Received from magistrate. Parents va-
grants.

No. 553, 6 years—Received from mother, drunken vagrant.
Father at sea.