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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 I860.
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 remark-
ably 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. Meredith,
Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland, in and for the
city aforesaid, do hereby, in virtue of the Act of General As-
sembly of Maryland, of the session of the year eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-four, entitled, an Act to add a new section to
Article 4, of the Code of Public Local Law for Baltimore 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 under the charge, care
and control of the corperation, 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 orphan
child, without any visible means of support, and found loit-
ering 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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