2035

SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT.

OF THE

CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY

OF BALTIMORE

The Board of Managers review the operations of the Chil-
dren's Aid Society, during the past year, with feelings of grat-
itude and pleasure. The support we have received from va-
rious sources has enabled us to perfect the working of our
system, and we believe, to increase the usefulness and effi-
ciency of the Society.

We continue to extend our aid to the destitute and vagrant
boys and girls, who often homeless and friendless, are drift-
ing about the increasingly crowded thoroughfares of our city.

For one hundred and twenty-eight children, we have found
home in the country during the past year. Of these, thirty
were committed to us by the courts and magistrates under the
Act authorizing such committal. Twenty-two were orphans
and all but seven were located in our own State. We have
also continued to protect and shelter children who have
claimed our assistance, and have been able to rescue some
from abodes of misery and crime. Feeling that there never
was greater need of our exertions, we hope to be able to ex-
tend and enlarge our operations in future.

As anticipated in our last Annual Report, this Society re-
moved into their own "Home," No. 72 North Calvert street,
on the first of February, 1866- It needed to be thoroughly
repaired and furnished before we entered it. This was ac-
complished mainly by the exertions of one of our managers
and family, through whose efforts a successful Concert was
given, by the best amateurs of the city on our behalf, which
realized the handsome sum of four hundred and fifty-nine
dollars and fifty cents. The ladies who participated in the
management of the Society, also aided us, both in the collec-
tion and judicious disbursement of the money set aside for
this object.

To all those who have so kindly added to the comfort and
convenience of our "Home," we tender our most grateful
acknowledgements. A ground rent of one hundred dollars,