Annual Report of the Directors, Presented to the Corporation at the Annual Meeting, Issues 1-20 |
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00 Miss A. G. Farwell A. T. Lyman Adams admission admitted adopted almshouses Amory Andrew Carney annual meeting April babies Bigelow boarding places Bonds Boston Boylston Brookline C. C. Smith Charities Charles child Clarke Codman Commonwealth Avenue Corporation Curtis D. S. Greenough Directors disease donations Dorchester E. W. Hooper EDWARD MOTLEY Epes Sargent F. A. Kennedy Fund G. H. Shaw Gardner George Higginson H. H. Hunnewell Henry Saltonstall institution Isaac Pitman J. I. Bowditch J. J. Dixwell Jamaica Plain James John Lowell Loring Martin Brimmer Massachusetts Infant Asylum Matron Medford Minot Miss Anna Miss C. L. Ware Miss M. A. Miss Mary Miss PHEBE months Morse mother nurses parents Parker Parkman person PHEBE G PORTER Putnam Roxbury S. D. Warren Samuel Cabot Sargent Secretary SECT Street Subscriptions Tappan Theodore Lyman THOMAS PARSONS Treasurer W. S. Bullard Weld Wheelwright William William Endicott William W
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Page 31 - And be it further enacted, That all Acts and parts of Acts repugnant to the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed...
Page 33 - Asylum, for the purpose of assisting and providing for deserted and destitute infant children ; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth in the sixty-eighth chapter of the General Statutes, and in all general laws which now are or hereafter may be in force relating to such corporations.
Page 21 - ... of sufficient ability to bring up the child and furnish suitable nurture and education...
Page 33 - Commonwealth under sentence for a term of which more than three years remain unexpired at the date of the petition; or if he has wilfully deserted and neglected to provide proper care and maintenance for such child for two years last preceding the date of the petition...
Page 5 - wasted the little wealth I formerly possessed, in self-indulgence or vain expenses, and I am not ashamed to confess that in my old age I am poor.
Page 34 - ... other legal consequences and incidents of the natural relation of parents and children, the child of the parents by adoption, the same as if he had been born to them in lawful wedlock ; except that he shall not be capable of taking property expressly limited to the heirs of the body or bodies of the parents by adoption, nor property from the lineal or collateral kindred of such parents by right of representation.
Page 5 - ... is to come in at the outward door and ring a bell at the inward door, and not to go away until the child is returned or notice given of its reception ; but no questions whatever will be asked of any person who brings a child, nor shall any servant of the house presume to endeavour to discover who such person is, on pain of being discharged.
Page 4 - They may make or authorize all necessary contracts, but shall have no power to make the Club liable for any debt beyond the amount of money which shall, at the time of contracting such debt, be in the Treasurer's hands, and not needed for the discharge of prior debts or liabilities.
Page 20 - A person of the age of twenty-one years or upwards, may petition the probate court in the county of his residence for leave to adopt as his or her child another person younger than himself or herself, unless such other person is his or her wife, husband, brother, sister, uncle, or aunt, either of the whole or half blood. If the petitioner has a husband or wife living, who is competent to join in the petition, such husband or wife should...
Page 23 - That all laws and parts of laws in so far as they conflict with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed.