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 THE ORPHANS' HOME 
 
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 TORONTO AND THE COUNTY OF YORK. 
 
 RULES AND REGULATIONS, &. 
 
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 II is particularly reqnexted that th« ptrtm into vehom handt tMs may 
 
 fall will be kmd enough to circulate it amongst the benevolent 
 
 vMhin their neighborhood. 
 
 Benevolent individuals at a diatance, who may be desirous of adding to 
 
 the funds of the Society, and will kindly undertake to raise 
 
 subscriptions or donations among their friends, will 
 
 please to forward or pay the amount to 
 
 the Treasurer of the Society 
 
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THE OKPHANS' HOME 
 
 AND 
 
 FEMALE AID SOCIETY, 
 
 TORONTO. 
 
 INGORPOBATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT, AUGUST ain>, IMl. 
 
 HER EXCELLENCY THE COUNTESS OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINB. 
 
 JFirat ©irtctrwB. 
 MRS. WIDDER. 
 
 ^ccontr JSixtttt:»g. 
 MRS. DRAPER. 
 
 Minastta, 
 
 MRS. ROBINSON, 
 
 « BOULTON, 
 
 « DRAPER, 
 
 « MACAULAY, 
 
 " WIDDER, 
 
 « H. SHERWOOD, 
 
 " CARTHEW, 
 
 « LETT, 
 
 «« GURNETT, 
 
 « J. RIDOUT, 
 
 MRS. MOFFATT, 
 " L. ROBINSON, 
 « 6RASETT, 
 " C. HEATH, 
 " McCUTCHON, 
 MISS BALDWIN, 
 MRS. CUMBERLAND, 
 " O'BRIEN, 
 " G. M. JARVI8, 
 " B. BALDWIN. 
 
 Crtasurtr. 
 MRS. LETT. 
 
 Xecretats. 
 MRS. JOHN RIDOUT. 
 
 JSeUical Officers. 
 DRS. HALLOWELL, MELVILLE, BADGELEY A BETHUNB. 
 
 E.^M. HODDflU, ESQ., M. D. 
 
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 AN ACT 
 
 To Incorporate '* The Or2)hans' Home and Female Ai^ 
 Society, TorontoP 
 
 Preamble. 
 
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 Certain 
 
 Whereas an Association has been formed in the 
 City of Toronto, under the name of " The Orphans^ Home 
 and Female Aid Society^* for the purpose of affording 
 relief and support to friendless orphans and destitute females 
 of the said City and of the County of York, and in addition 
 thereto, to afford religious and moral instruction to all who 
 may become dependent thereon ; and whereas the Associa- 
 tion is composed of the several persons hereinafter men- 
 tioned : Be it therefore enacted, &c., 
 
 That MaryG. Sherwood, Clam L. Cayley,Mary Carthew, 
 Harriet E. Gamble, Charlotte B. Ridout, Caroline M . Rahn, personB in- 
 Mary S. Macdonald, Wilmot Cumberland, Isabella Baby,"" 
 Mary Ann Musson, Mary Ann Thomas, M. Thomas, 
 Marianne Liddell, Augusta Draper, Caroline Mdffatt, Mary 
 Burn, Caroline Jarvis, Mary S. Jarvis, Elizabeth B. Burns, 
 Alice Clark, Caroline Carthew, Harriette Lett, Mai'y A'. 
 O'Brien, Emma Robinson, Emily M. ^ • ' oy, Mary Robih- 
 fion, Sarah Ann Boulton, Harriet E. M. Boulton, Sarah 
 Heath, Georgiana Harman, Anne Esten, Eliza Heward', 
 Mary Cosens, Diana Moffatt, Sarah Spragge, Mary Browne, 
 Eliza Stanton, Sarah Nation, Anna Mary Crickmore, Julia 
 Howard Bovell, Emma C. Deslandes, Henrietta Robarts, 
 Louisa Gait, Lilla Vankoughnet, Mary Emily Brock, Han- 
 nah Paterson, Leonora Wakefield, and such other persons 
 as shall under the provisions of this Act become members 
 of the said institution, shall be and are hereby declared to be 
 B body politic and corporate, in deed and in name, by the 
 name of "The Orphans^ Home and Female Aid Society. 
 
 Corporate 
 
 Toronto^'' and by that name shall have perpetual succession namo a&d 
 and a common seal, and shall have power from time to time 
 to alterj renew or change such common seal at their plea- 
 sure, and shall by the same name from time to time and at 
 all times hereafter be able and capable to purchase, acquire, 
 hold, possess and enjoy, and to have, take and receive to 
 them and their successors, to and for the uses and purposes 
 of the said corporation, any land, tenements and heredita- 
 ments and real or immoveable property and estate, situate, 
 
 powers. 
 
property. 
 
 BjAkwb, 
 
 Anqunl 
 Qenurnl 
 MeetingR, 
 when (n be 
 held, and for 
 ■wlmt pur- 
 poaef. 
 
 Proviso : 
 
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 Qeneral 
 
 lying ant! being within this Province, not exceeding in yearly 
 value the sum of one thmisatid pounds currency, and the 
 same to sell, alienate and dispose of, and to purchase others 
 in their stead for the same purposes ; and by the same name 
 shall and may be able and capalile in law to sue and be sued, 
 implead and be impjeaded, answer and be answered unto in 
 all C4)urts of law and places whatsoever, in as large, ample 
 and beneficial a manner as any other body politic or cor- 
 porate, or as any persons able or capable in law may or can 
 sue or be sued, implead or be impleaded, answer or be an- 
 swered unto in any manner whatsoever ; and shall have 
 power and authority to make and establish such rules, orders 
 and regulations, not being contrary tti this statute nor to the 
 laws in force in this Province, as shall be deemed useful or 
 necessary for the interests of the said Corporation and for the 
 ipanagement thereof, and for the admission of members into 
 the said Corporation, and from time to time to alter, repeal 
 and change the said rules, orders and regulations or any of 
 them ; and shall and may do, execute and perform all and 
 singular other the matters and things relating to the said 
 Corporation and the management thereof, which shall or 
 may appertain thereto ; subject nevertheless to the rules, 
 regulations, stipulations and conditions hereinafter prescribed 
 qind established. 
 
 II. And be it enacted. That an annual general meeting 
 pf the members of the Corporation shall be held on the first 
 Tuesday of the month of June in each and every year, or if 
 any such Tuesday be a Holy-day, or if the election herein- 
 after mentioned be not for any cause then had, then on such 
 day as shall be appointed in the manner hereinafter mea» 
 tioned for the annual election of Directresses and Managers, 
 a Secretary, a Treasurer, or other Office-bearers of the said 
 Society, as to tho said Corporation shall seem meet, by and 
 through the majority of such members present at such gen- 
 eral meeting, and for the transaction o( all such matters and 
 things relating to the affairs of the said Corporation for the 
 year preceding such first Tuesday in the said month of 
 June, ,and for the adjustment and settlement of the accounts 
 and business of the said Corporation for the said preceding 
 year: Provided always, that the said Corporation, on a 
 requisition signed by not less than five of tlie members 
 
thereof, may at any time, by a notice io be inBcrted for not Moptinga 
 less than five days in one or more of the newspupers pub-i^fu'd «nd 
 lished in the City of Toronto, call a general meeting of the what pur. 
 members of the said Corporation, specifying the hour, day, **°*"*" 
 place and object of the said meeting ; and the members of 
 the Society, or the majority thereof, at any such extraor- 
 dinary meeting as aforesaid, shall have power and authority 
 to make, revise, alter or rescind any rules, orders and regu- 
 lations for the management of the Corporation, after notice 
 of any motion for introducing any new rule, or for any such 
 repeal or alteration, shall have been given at the general 
 meeting next immediately preceding that at which such mo- 
 tion shall be made and considered, and to admit new mem- 
 bers, and to fdl up all vacancies which may occur among 
 the said Directresses and Managers, Secretary and Treasurer 
 aforesaid, and generally to do and perform all such matters 
 and things as may be conducive to the well being of the said 
 Corporation. 
 
 III. And be it enacted. That all and every the estate Property of 
 and property, real and personal, belonging to, or hereafter tion vested 
 to be acquired by the members of the said Association, andporationj 
 all debts, claims and rights whatsoever, due to them as such,cor8,By-iawfl, 
 shall be and are hereby vested in the Corporation hereby those of the 
 established, and the Directresses, Managers, Secretary and unm^iiTbe" 
 Treasurer, appointed or to be appointed before the first an- ordered.* 
 nual general meeting shall be held under the authority of 
 this Act, shall be and continue to be the Directresses, Mana. 
 gers. Secretary and Treaeiu or of the said Corporation, until 
 others in their stead, or the same, shall be elected at such 
 annual general meeting, in the manner herein provided; and 
 the rules, orders and regulations now made or to be made 
 for the management of the Association herein first men- 
 tioned, shall be and continue to be the rules, orders and 
 regulations of the said Corporation until altered or repealed 
 in the manner herein provided; and the said rules, orders ^ j^^^ 
 and regulations shall be submitted to the members of the to be submit 
 
 ted for revi- 
 
 said Society for their approval and confirmation at such first ?ion at flwt 
 
 •' ' ' General 
 
 general meeting as aforesaid, at which they may be confirmed. Meeting, 
 rejected, altered, amended, or new rules substituted for 
 them, without any previous notice, anything herein con» 
 tained to the contrary notwithstanding. 
 
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 PoWBMOfthO 
 
 DiriTtrnHHt'i 
 ■nd Manar 
 
 Nou ■liability 
 of Members. 
 
 Married wo- 
 men may act 
 without 
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 Rights of tho 
 Crown, &c., 
 aavod. 
 
 Ptiblic Aet. 
 
 IV. And bo it ennctcd, That the DirectrcsBca and ^fan^• 
 gcra fur the time bein^ Hhull have power to appoint such 
 oflicerM and Hervants of the said Corporation as shall be 
 necessary for the well conducting of the business of the 
 same, and to allow to them such compensation for their 
 services resj)ectively as shall bo reasonable and proper ; and 
 the said Directresses and Managers shall be capable of 
 exercising such other powers and authority for the well 
 governing and ordering of the afl'airs of the said Corporation 
 as shall be prescribed by the rules, orders and regulations 
 of the said Corporation. 
 
 V. And be it enacted, That nothing herein contained 
 shall have the efiect, or be construed to have the eflcct, of 
 rendering all or any of the said several persons hereinbefore 
 mentioned, or all or any of the members of the said Corpor- 
 ation, or any person whomsoever, individually liable or 
 accountable, for or by reason of any debt, contract or secu- , 
 rity, incurred or entered into for or by reason of the said 
 Corporation, or for, or on account, or in respc* t of any 
 matter or thing whatsoever, relating to the said Corporation. 
 
 VI. And be it enacted. That it shall not be neccssaiy to 
 the validity of any act performed by any married woman, 
 as a member of the said Corporation, or to her becoming 
 such, that she be thereunto specially authorized by her 
 husband ; any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwith- 
 standing. 
 
 VII. And be it enacted. That nothing herein contained 
 shall affect or be considered to affect, in any manner or way, 
 the rights of Her Majesty, her heirs or successors, or of any 
 person or persons, or of any body politic or corporate, such 
 only excepted as are hereinbefore mentioned and provided for. 
 
 VIII. And be it enacted, That the said Corporation shall 
 be bound when required by the Governor or person adminis. 
 tering the government of this Province for the time being, 
 to render true statements of their receipts and expenditure, 
 and of the real and personal estate held and enjoyed by the 
 said Corporation. 
 
 IX. And be it enacted. That this Statute shall be deemed 
 a Public Act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such 
 by all Judges, Justices of the Peace, and other persona 
 whomsoever, without being specially pleaded. 
 
RULES & REGULATIONS 
 
 OF 
 
 THE ORPHANS' HOME & FEMALE AID SOCIETY, 
 
 TORONTO. 
 
 Morabcrg of 
 
 I. Every person paying an annual subscription of one *'""'°"*"*^" 
 pound shall be a Member of the Society, entitled to vote 
 
 at the general annual meeting ; and every person presenting 
 
 a donation of five pounds shall be a Life Member. objociBoftho 
 
 II. The Society sliall, for the present, limit its exertions ®°'^'*'"^^" 
 to aflbrding relief and support to friendless Orphans of all 
 denominations of the Protestant religion, admitted under the 
 regulations hereinafter provided. Direction to 
 
 III. The government of the Society shall be under the ^^^^^^^^^ 
 direction of twenty Managers, who shall be chosen annually 
 
 at the general meeting on the first Tuesday in June in each 
 year ; and who shall assume their duties as soon as possible 
 after their election, and at their first meeting shall appoint 
 from among themselves a first and second Directress, a 
 Treasurer and a Secretary, for the year ensuing. Duties of the 
 
 IV. The Managers -shall meet monthly, on the lastManagerB. 
 Tuesday of each moHth, to direct all things necessary for 
 
 the benefit of the Society. At all meetings of the Managers 
 five shall form a quorum for the transaction of any business, 
 except the alteration of or addition to the Rules and Regu- 
 lations of the Society. No such addition or alteration shall 
 take place unless a proposal to that effect be first made and 
 seconded at one monthly meeting, and discussed and passed 
 at the next, when not less than twelve Managers shall be 
 present. One of the Directresses shall preside at all meet, 
 ings ; and if they are absent, a Presiding Directress shall be 
 chosen for the occasion. The Presiding Directress shall 
 propose all questions, declare the decision, and have the 
 casting vote. On the requisition of any three of the Mana- 
 
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 gers, the Secretary may call a meeting of the Managers, at 
 any time, giving at least twenty-four hours' notice. Some 
 of the Managers, in such order as they may determine, shall 
 visit the house at least three times a week, to order all things 
 necessary ; and shall keep a minute book, in which they 
 shall record their observations on the concerns of the house 
 generally, to be laid before the monthly meeting. They 
 shall investigate the management of the Matron and the 
 conduct of the inmates, inspect their work, and direct the 
 domestic proceedings of the house. If a Manager is by any 
 means precluded from fulfilling the duties of her office, she 
 shall notify the Secretary thereof, before the next monthly 
 meeting, in order that a substitiite be named for the ensuing 
 month. The Managers shall decide upon the claims of 
 applicants for admission to the house, after a perfect investi. 
 gation relative to the circumstances and situation of the 
 claimant, and shall enquire respecting those persons who 
 may apply to take any of the children as apprentices ; and 
 being satisfied of the respectability and competency of such 
 persons to fulfil the terms of the indenture of apprenticeship, 
 shall make the necessary order for apprenticing. 
 Dutiesof the V. The Treasurer shall keep a register of the Subscribers 
 and Donors, and shall receive all monies, and keep an 
 account of the same and of the disbursements ; an abstract 
 statement of which shall be presented to the Managers at 
 each of their monthly meetings ; and a full statement, with 
 the vouchers of all receipts and disbursements for the year, 
 shall be given to the Managers, to l?8 audited by them, not 
 less than eight days previous to each annual meeting of the 
 Society. The Treasurer shall also inspect and certify the 
 account of the Matron, previous to each monthly meeting, 
 and pay no bill without an order of the Managers at such 
 meeting. 
 Duties of the VI. The Secretary shall keep a list of the Managers, and 
 give them notice of the monthly meetings. She shall com. 
 mence the business of each meeting of the Managers by 
 reading the minutes of the preceding meeting and the state- 
 ment of Hhe Treasurer. In case of the sickness or absence 
 of the Secretary, a Secretary pro tem. shall be chosen by 
 the Managers, from among themselves, at such meeting. 
 The Secretary shall keep a record of the children's names 
 
 Treasuier. 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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 and ages, the place of their birth, the church to which their 
 parents belonged, and the time and circumstances under 
 which each child enters and leaves the house ; and shall, at 
 least once in twelve months, enquire b/writing or otherwise 
 into the state of the children apprenticed by the Society, 
 should the person who becomes responsible for the superin- 
 tending care of them neglect to fulfil the promise made, to 
 inform the Managers or Treasurer thereof. The Secretary 
 shall keep such other books and records as the Managers 
 may require, and conduct the correspondence of the Society. 
 She shall place in the room in which the Managers meet 
 the names of the Managers, with their places of abode, that 
 any person may know to whom to apply respecting the 
 admission or taking away of r^uf of the children. And 
 lastly, she shall prepare an annual report of the proceedings 
 of the Society, to be approved by the Managers, containing 
 a statement of accounts and management, to be read at the 
 general meeting of the members of the Society to be held on 
 the first Tuesday in June in each year ; of which annual 
 meeting she shall cause advertisements to be inserted in the 
 newspapers of Toronto at least three weeks previous to the 
 said first Tuesday in June. 
 
 VII. The Matron shall be elected by the Managers at a Duties of tho 
 monthly meeting, who shall decide on the amount of her salary 
 (unexceptionable certificates having been previously fur- 
 nished), and she may be removed without notice, if occasion 
 require. The management of the domestic affairs shall be 
 vested in the Matron, under the supervision of the Managers, 
 who shall provide such other aid as the wants of the House 
 may from time to time require. No relative or friend shall 
 interfere in the management of the children, nor visit them 
 except in the presence of the Matron, nor at any time when 
 Buch visits are disapproved by the Managers. A School 
 shall always form part of the establishment, and religious 
 instruction of the Church of England shall be included in 
 the daily education of the School. School hours f''om 9 to 
 12 a. m. and from 2 to 5 p. m. There shall be such diet as 
 may be approved by the Managers or medical advisers. 
 The hours of rising and retiring shall be at 6 and 9 in sum. 
 mer, and 7 & 8 o'clock in winter. The Matron shall pass 
 through the dormitories afier the hour of retiring and see 
 
 Matron. 
 
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 Begulations 
 for the ad- 
 mission of 
 
 that the lights are extinguished and removed. The discip* 
 line shall be strictly parental in its character, and the order 
 and decorum of a well regulated family shall be carefully 
 observed. The Matron is to be particular in her attention 
 to the clergy and strangers who visit the House, and she 
 shall not be absent or sleep out of the House without per- 
 mission from one of the Managers. Upon the representa- 
 tion of the Matron of the failure of duty in any of the per. 
 sons hired, she shall be at liberty (with the consent of the 
 Managers) to dismiss them from service. All cases of dis- 
 obedience to the orders of the Matron by the inmates to be 
 represented to the Managers. 
 
 Vni. The objects of the charity shall consist of three 
 classes — 1st, Orphans: 2nd, Children without a Father: 
 the Children. 3j.j^ Children without a Mother. Preference shall be made 
 of applicants in the above order. All applications for the 
 admission of children shall be made in writing to the Mana- 
 gers (under cover to the Secretary^, and must be approved 
 by them ; aud the admission of the different classes shall be 
 according to the priority of the applications. The election 
 of the candidates for admission shall be determined by the 
 Managers at their monthly meetings, and to such an extent 
 as the funds of the Society will admit. Any of the Managers 
 may nevertheless in their discretion admit children into the 
 House in the interim, subject to such approval. Children 
 admitted into the House shall remain under the care of the 
 Matron for at least one year previous to their being appren- 
 ticed, unless circumstances may require this rule to be de- 
 viated from. 
 Regniations ^^- Childr^ n are to be retained in the House until they 
 Ucinif^'^"'^" ^''^ twelve years of age, unless a particularly good situation 
 should offer for a child of an earlier age, when the case may 
 be discretionary with the Managers. The friends of the 
 children are allowed the privilege of procuring situations for 
 them if they can do so on as favorable terms as the Managers. 
 Subscribers to the Society shall always have the preference 
 in the choice of Apprentices. Children on attaining the 
 age of twelve years may be apprenticed to such worthy 
 Protestant fiiniiliee as give satisfactory evidence to the 
 Managers by the certificates of clergymen, that they are 
 proper persona to have the charge of orphan children. 
 
 ticing 
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 They may also be apprenticed to any trade, provided the 
 same satisfactory evidence be adduced regarding the charac- 
 ter of those to whom they are bound. Each cliild on leav- 
 ing shall be furnished with a copy of the Bible, and be pro- 
 vided vi^ith a decent suit of clothes adapted to the season. 
 No child shall be bound to a tavern-keeper or person keep- 
 ing a boarding-house, and no female child shall be appren- 
 ticed to an unmarried man. The conditions of the Inden- 
 ture of apprenticeship, whether to a family or for the pur- 
 pose of learning a trade, shall be — to feed and clothe the child 
 in a fit and proper manner, according to the respective situ- 
 ations of the parties, for a term of years — the boys until they 
 attain the age of 21 years, and the girls that of 18 years ; to 
 bring up the child in the Protestant religion ; to instruct the 
 child in reading and writing ; to teach and instruct the child 
 
 in the art or trade of [or make perfect in domestic 
 
 service] after the best manner ; to remit to the Treasurer of 
 the Society for the time being, at the expiration of each 
 year from the date of the Indenture of Apprenticeship, the 
 sum of Fifteen Shillings currency, to be placed in the 
 Savings' Bank for the child's use when the Apprenticeship 
 shall terminate, — at which period the child shall be provided 
 by the Master with a new, good and suitable suit of clothes ; 
 and lastly, it shall be particularly covenanted and agreed 
 that a written statement shall be transmitted once a year to 
 the Secretary of the Society, of the welfare and condition of 
 the child. Three months after the time of the several an- 
 nual payments becoming due, if they are not then paid, 
 notice shall be sent to the clergymen who recommended 
 the person as a master, in order to enforce the discharge of 
 the debt.