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The following letter has been received from the foster
parents of the above-mentioned child, in her excellent coun-
try home:

M. S., H. Co., MD,, October 10, 1866.

W. C. PALMER, ESQ.—
Dear Sir:

As I am again disappointed in coming to the city this
week, I enclose the application for the little girl, who is a
remarkably fine and an extra child.

Respectfully, yours, W. M.

COMMITMENTS AND LETTERS FROM FOSTER PA-
RENTS.

Know all by these Presents, That I, Charles P. Mere-
dith, Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland, in and
for the city aforesaid, do hereby, in virtue of the Act of Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland, of the session of the year eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-four, entitled, an Act to add a new
section to Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Law for Bal-
timore city, title Vagrants, for the purpose of extending to
the "Children's Aid Society" "the provisions therein relating
to the "Home of the Friendless," to commit to and place un-
der the charge, care and control of the corporation, in the
city of Baltimore' called "The Children's Aid Society," J. M.,
a boy aged twelve years, being found in said city, and being
destitute and suffering for want of support, and being an or-
phan child, without any visible means of support, and found
loitering about the city.

And I do hereby commit said child as aforesaid to be and
remain under the control and restraint of said Corporation
and of the managers thereof, and in their charge, and bound
to obedience to their rules, regulations and discipline, as AP-
PRENTICES are by law bound; and until he shall be twenty-one
years old, or for a shorter period, as may be determined by
said Corporation, agreeably to the provisions of said Act of
Assembly.
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