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9 <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. <br />a <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. <br />�5ilued:l f1JU,. Mt KEL;, C'krl.. <br />