Report of the Committee on the Subject of Pauperism and a House of Industry in the Town of Boston (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Those Overseers, farther stated that, in their opinion, every thing considered, the annual expense; within the Alms House did not exceed nine, or ten dollars per head, per year. The sub-committee Were satisfied, that this estimate did not underrate the actual expense particularly as there is no credit allowed in it, for one thousand days labour done upon the highways, by that portion of the able bodied tenants of the Alms House, who were capable of this species of labour. All the highway work of Marblehead being done, by the poor of their Alms House.

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