The Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... the Hospital, if within five years the Trustees could raise $100,000 by subscriptions and gifts. The limit of time was extended by an act of 1813. It was in October, 1816, more than five years after the incorporation of the Hospital, that the Humane Society appears first to have become directly involved in the efforts to raise the required endowment. An entry in the Society's records for October 7, 1816, reveals a project to purchase "the house of Mrs. Magee, in Roxbury," as an asylum for the insane--a project afterwards abandoned. During the next four months the Hospital enterprise took a conspicuous place in the interest and activity of the Society. The following records, found in "A Statement of Premiums," etc. (1829), trace the steps by which the Humane Society arrived at its original contribution of five thousand dollars to the establishment of the Massachusetts General Hospital, and planned for the continuance of its support: November 20, 1816.--The committee appointed to confer with the trustees of the General Hospital, reported a letter from the said trustees to the chairman, expressive of their willingness to receive and apply "any sums which the trustees of the Humane Society, or private individuals, shall see fit to subscribe to the establishment of a hospital for the insane, according to the principles and on the terms such subscribers shall see fit to prescribe, provided the same be consistent with the terms and principles of their charter of incorporation." Whereupon "Voted, that the committee appointed to obtain subscriptions be requested to commence the business of their appointment immediately, and that Rev. Mr. Lowell, Mr. Parkman, and Dr. Spooner be requested to explain the intentions...

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.