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<br />APPENDIX H.
<br />To the Wordm, Reeves and Deputy Reeves of the County of Essex, in Coatsrsif
<br />,lssewhkd:
<br />The committee appointed to obtain information with regard to maintaining a
<br />Now of Industry and Refuge in this county, beg leave to report as follows :
<br />That they have ascertained that the expense for charitable purposes to the
<br />carious municipalities in the county is, for 1877 $4,754, and for t6
<br />yarn $13,485.61.
<br />That this expenditure is rapidly increasing under the present system.
<br />That much of this expenditure, as well as a considerable portion Qf that in.
<br />caned in maintaining vagrants, paupers and others in the County Gaol, could be
<br />aved and otherwise employed by establishing a House of Industry and Refuge.
<br />That the various municipalities lose the taxes of indigent persons, who might
<br />be advantageously employed in such an institution with industrial farm attached.
<br />That many at present maintained in the hospital could be kept in such an insti.
<br />tution by providing suitable work for them.
<br />That many incurables and indigent persons cost from' $2 to $3 per week, in
<br />addition to medicine and medical attendance, while the experience of the Various
<br />Houses of Industry in the country goes to show that they can be maintained at a
<br />mach less cost.
<br />That the County of Waterloo maintains from 66 to 88 persons, at an hverage
<br />cost per week per head of 78 cents, including salaries, medicine; medical attend.
<br />Mee, clothing, etc, together with the interest ($1,876) on the outlay for form,
<br />buildings and permanent improvements.
<br />That in the some institution the earnings per year have risen from $454 in
<br />1870 to $2,000 in 1876, notwithstanding that of the eighty -three inmates in 1876
<br />9 were crippled, 8 idiotic, 2 too old to work, and quite a number too sick or too
<br />young to be of much service.
<br />That your committee is of the opinion that it would be advisable, in the inter.
<br />eat of the county at large, to establish a House of Industry in connection with
<br />an industrial farm.
<br />And they would recommend that the Reeves be requested to obtain an opinion
<br />from their respective municipalities as to the advisability of undertaking such a
<br />scheme, and report the same to this Council at its next session.
<br />All of which is respectfully submitted.
<br />R. CARNEY, Chairman.
<br />Committee Room, June 14, 1878.
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<br />BY -LAW No. an.
<br />.1 By-Law to Provhk and
<br />the .Sure of
<br />Our hundred
<br />DojMrs 7omwtrdr
<br />the Institutes of Tout-hers
<br />iu 10 North ,snd
<br />Sowth Ridiads
<br />of the County of
<br />Essex.
<br />Passed June ta, 1878.
<br />Where,", It is necessary and expedient to provide and levy the sum of one
<br />hundred dollars towards the Institutes of teachers in the North and South Rid.
<br />inp of the County of Essex,
<br />.Ile it therefor litjcted by the Council of the corporation of the County of
<br />hex, wider arcl by virtue of the Public School Act of the Province of Ontario,
<br />that the .wn of one hundred dollars be paid towards the Institutes of teachers in
<br />the North and South Riding- of the County of Essex for the current yegr in
<br />mutoer folluu in Y, dirt is to say, fifty dollars to the North Riding, awl the same
<br />to the South Rittiup; ;
<br />And be it further enacted that the said sums be paid to the In.,pectors of
<br />Schoob for the said Rulings ; and the Warden is hereby authorized to sigii war-
<br />haleupon the Trea,urer of the said county for the payinent of the same.
<br />(Signed,) (, t_. PATTERSON, Wardvii.
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