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and teacher as they may respectively need. The School has
the appearance of a large family, and seems to have been
quite succcessful in training boys to become honest, industri-
ous citizers, some of whom have attained positions of eminence
and trust in this and other States. As one of the Institu-
tions devoted to the training of those who will devote them-
selves to the important pursuits of farming and gardening,
the Manual Labor School' commends itself to the good will
and support of the State.

ST. MARY S INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL

receives on indentures indigent children, who are either full
orphans, half orphans, or those who are in imminent danger
of going astray in their morals, provided they are not under
ten years of age, nor over sixteen, and are not of impaired
intellect, or possessed of contagious or incurable diseases.
These children are taught either printing, shoemaking,
blacksmithing, farming, gardening, or are employed in the
bakery or other household duties; when they reach the age
of seventeen, or even younger, in case they are deemed suitably
prepared, are instructed in the ordinary School branches.
They are bound out to suitable persons until they attain their
majority. One hundred and forty-four boys are now under
the protection of this Institution, and seem to be cared for
properly by its authorities.

ST. JOSEPH'S SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY.

This is devoted to girls from twelve years of age and
upwards, who are taught the elementary English branches,
domestic habits and needle-work... The handiwork of these
girls contribute to the support of the Institution; so far as
the Committee were informed, indentures were not required
for admission, and the right to come and go seemed to be at
the will of the inmates. It fills a place in the community
rather peculiar, and doubtless accomplishes its measures of
good in the training of girls, who might otherwise be thrown
helpless on the world.

THE HOME OF THE FRIENDLESS.

This Institution is the result of an effort of members of va-
rious denominations and creeds to furnish shelter and sup-
port, education and moral training to the very young, and
to supply the place of the mother and the school to those who
have no parents, or whose parents sadly need assistance in
the rearing of their children. Two hundred and fourteen
children have been under its care during the past year, of
which number one-third were four years of age and under;
one hundred and forty are now within the walls of the two
commodious buildings that private liberality has erected for
their accommodation. When these children attain a suita-