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Show 24G APP END IX TO NOTES. or hy affillavit, in adUitiou to \.,.Laat is cvnl:Lillf•J iu l!l(l ISaitl ~·ccorrl of the identity of the person escaping, he or s h_c ~ h all l!c delivered up to the cla.im1mt. And tho said court, <:ommJ.<~S ioncr, .JU:Ig(', or other person authorized by this :l.Ct to grant certificates to claunanl~ of fugitives, shall, upon the production of ~he record :~nd .other c\·HJcn cc~:~ nforcsa.id, g1·n.nt to such cltLim:wt a ccrtlfic.ntc of I~ IS r1~ht to take any such person identified, nnd proved to bo owm~ s.crncc or b?or ns nforcsn. id which ccrtificn.tc sllall nutho1·izc such clatmant to SCIZO or art·cst and' transport such r,crson t~ t he St~to or t~rritory from which he csc:1.pcd: Provided, 'J lmt notlnng hcrcm.-cont:~mod shall he con?trucd ~: 1~0~~!:~i~. th:hf.~~~luict~~~L~cfn~c t ~~~s~t;~~~ ~aL~~;c~:·~~~lr;~ a::.~l~··s;;~~= mined upon other satisfactory proofs competent iu la.w. September 18, 1850. Al'l'}:NDI.X li'. PAIJPF.Il S\'STl.;ll OP MASSACUt.:SETTS. Tho following cxtr~cts :tre tnkon from the "Rcpo1't of the. Coml~1 i ssioneJ'S appointed by an order of the House of HcprcRcnlatlvcs, }rh. 29, 1832, on the subject of the Pauper Sy>rtcm of the ~ommon~vealth of 1\fassn.chuscUs.-BoRton; Du.tton & Wentworth, State Pmde•·s, 1833." 'l'ho Commist:ioncrR, lfon. Wil li:1m B. Calhoun, I fon. llcnry Shn.w, Joseph Ctddwell, Ef:q ., Gcot·gc A. Tufts, J<:sq., and Hov: Joseph 'l'uckcrmnn, under authority from the House of HcprcsentatH·efl, nppointed one of their number ngcnt to ''isit varioul:l towns in the Stn.to and collect stn.tisticf!l, and those statistics nrc appended to the report, and published by order of the House. The towns whose stntisticsare given arc classified under two hcndil,tlJOsc that Jmve Alms-houses aml lnnJ for tho support of the po01·, nnd those tlmt ha.Ye not; of the former class arc 43, and of tbc b.ttcr, 26. In the quotations thn.t follow, I have ital-icised certain pns.snges, to • call particular attention to them, us showing that, twenty ;reurs ago, certain practices, which nrc commonly spqkcn of as pccuhnr to tho slave States, such, for instance, ns selling men and women at auction, and scpnratin<r husbands nnd wives, wore not unknown in the "model Commonweal til," and therefore, afottiori, it. mny be presumed, in the oi.hcr free States. I s:ivc them here, not to ?ring reproach uyon my native State, limn winch the sun docs not ~ Jun e upon a. worth1cr, or a happier, but to show that Cl'ery socin.l .system has its cvilr~,-cvils that arc much more easily J)Crcci,·cd than g4)t rid off,-and thn.t it docs not become the pot to call the kettle Ulack. J[cro follow the quoll~tions :. "llosTo~. '!'he House of I nJustry con!ains tifty:fivc lodging rooms m tho mam house for the poor, and tlnrty-two m two out-houses. * * * lf1tsbands and U'ives are not allou:ed to live in the same room." "LYNN. 'fhc Alms-house was Luilt in I SH}. * * * It doc3 1wt admit of a classijicalion of the poor [that is, of a sqroration of tlt6 . sexes1; and [Jrcat cvi~ 1·csult from this difcct i1~ lite i11stiLution." APPENDIX TO NOTES. 247 "A~mon:n. 'l'he.Aims~hou.sc * . * * hrrs elcvC'n lod~ingrooms fo1· l~1P pour. C'o~l~t~lem?le ~vtls result from the impracticability ofseparfltw, q and cla.'J~·i}yt n,q tis mmates." !.(-fir Tlli>J town i::~ tho plncc of Mrs. Stowe's present residence i\fr S. _l~ing Pl'ofcssOl' Stuart's successor in tho' hcological Scmi;1ary: lt •~ ~o Ue h.opcd, thercfol'e, t hat, for the honour of her sex, site will J .. uk mto th1s matter, and see whether tho above "irnpmcticability" ha'l bcC'n got ovcl', or whether t he town iij still too poor to tnke care uf lhe mot·als of its pnupcrs. ' ' IIA \'~:JtJJJt.l.. Oreal dUficulties are cxpetiencC<.l from tl1e im.practicability of claiJsifiJiii{J the inmates." . ' ' J'IALDEN. 1'he_ house does not admit of a classijicalio" oftltc wmale..'l ,· a11d llwre ts cause for lite appreltcusion of evit from this ci1·• cwnMance.'' "LExlXGTON. '!'here. nrc eight lodging rooms for the inmates, nnd ~;:1:1~~~11~~t~~~.:1Jt7~:.?P Ill a room. Great care is nquired for sc(.:urity "W•:~TFORD .. 'l'horc arc six lodgin.c: rooms for the poor, and from two t? s•~ ~Jeep_ 1n a _ro?m. Immoralities ltavc 1·esulted from tlw im- 1lracllcabtltly oj classify•ng tlte imnates.'' " Hoxtn;nr. Tho mul?s live in ono win~, nnd the females in t11c other. lf1tsbands_ and wu•cs. arc 1wt (tllowed to live to,fjelltcr, and tho f!ICXC.S arc kept quttc npart J•·om each other. 'l'hie circum1:1tancc hal:! brought the !lOu~c int~ (~isf'avor with some who would otherwise ha.\'e b~ke n up thctr :1.bodo m 1t." '!'he naive/6 with which_ this !aRt remark is mac!C', is very om using. "}\' onc•;STER. There 1s a. small out-building which contains two lodgmg rooms for tlte blacks." 'L'his town, it. ~ho_uld be rccoUcctcd, is tho Head-Quarters of Mas~ s:\Chusctts Abohbomsm. "St'RI:'G.-!EI.D. _It has nine lodging rooms for the poor, nnd from ~ou r to ctght s leep 1.n. a room. 1\o classification can be m:1.dc of tho mmatcs. Inmwraht;cs ltave ,·es!tlle(.l fiwn tlti<1 ci1'Cumstancc, but not 1-ccently." Tho above nrc from tho fi1·st class, or thosJ which hnYc Alms-houses and they nrc only H specimen, as mn.y be seen by turning to thoHep~rt' The following are f1·om the second clnss :- · ".STOUGUTo~·· The poor of this_ t~wn nrc flnnuall_.,. sold at aucti011 to tlte lowes_t btddcr. * * * W1thm twelve yon rs past, the expense of supp9rhng the poor who were sold has varied from sixly·two ce11t3 to one dollar a week for each of them." "L~:OliJ:sSn:R. The present contrnctor has thi.~ class of the poor • [the pct·m~Lnent poor,]fOr seventy cenl.'f per week." Forth is sum they are "bonrdcd, ntu·s~d, clothed, and attended by n physician, if nccos· 6~ry/' "Small clu!J~cn ru·o boarded out in flunilics till they n.ro e1y!tt yew:s old, at w!ttclt avera(JC age t!tcy arc bound out. 'J.'ho cost for these IS forty cents per week. * * * Only one man of the permanent poor is capable of half n. day's work." • 1',ffcoenty cents p_cr week," each, for "_boarding, nurHing, and cloth· mg, throul!;h the r lgOJ'S of a Northern wmtcr, seventeell human being~. (see Table H., o.ppcndcd to the He port,) and only one of the seventeen |