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Question 7. We require the child to be sent to a proper day
school, three months each year, until it arrives at 18 years of
age, or an average amount independent of any instruction it
may receive at home.

Question 8. We require the foster parents to be very par-
ticular in the child's attendance upon Church and Sabbath
School, as frequently as possible, we considering the moral
training of the children the most important feature in our
work.

Question 9 and 10. The foster parents will be held strictly
responsible for the safety and protection of the child while
under their care, they informing us immediately of the least
interference from any source whatever.

Question 11. The foster parents are responsible to the
Society alone for the child, and must deliver it up to no one,
nor allow it to visit the city, without the consent of our
Agent.

Question 12. In the case of the child's absconding, its
foster parents will be required to protect the Society, by the
adoption of prompt and elective measures for its recovery.

Question 13 and 14. At age our boys receive the amount of
$100.00. Our girls $50.00. We prefer, however, that these
amounts should be paid in annual installments, to the order
of our Agent. The amount to be paid annually can be ascer-
tained by simply calculating the number of years the Child
has to serve, and, dividing the number of years into the amount
which will be due the child when it arrives at age.

Question 16. The applicant will be required to send some
perfectly reliable person to our "Home" for the child.

Question 16. The child shall be delivered by the Agent in
person to the applicant, a,t which time he (the agent) shall be
refunded the full amount of its traveling expenses.

Question 17. Unless we receive concise written reports, at
least twice a year relative to the child, we consider the con-
tract violated.

Question 18. No application will be retained upon our
books for a longer period than six months from its reception,
unless renewed by the applicant.

SIGNATURE OF APPLICANT, &o. Applications are not consid-
ered legal, unless signed by the applicant himself, with his
post office address. The signatures of two responsible wit-
nesses, with their address. The names of three responsible
referees, with their address. The endorsements of the Local
Committee of his district, should there be one, and the appli-
cation properly dated.

OBSERVANCE OF CONTRACT. Foster parents are held strictly
accountable for the observance of their contract with the So-
ciety. Should the contract be violated, the child will cer-
tainly be removed. Our agent is required at all times and
under all circumstances, to furnish the applicant, to the test