He shall procure such supplies for the Establishment as may be directed by the Acting Committee.

He shall not, at any one time, allow more than four of the children to be absent from the premises, and then only in company with himself, the Matron, or one of the Assistant Keepers, who are not to lose sight of them while absent from the Refuge.

He shall have the direction of the Assistant Keeper or Keepers, in all matters relative to carrying into effect the rules, regulations, and discipline of the House; and he shall be responsible for their acts and conduct while on the premises, and in the employ of the Society.

ASSISTANT KEEPERS.

The Assistant Keepers, Teachers, and other officers and servants, shall conduct themselves in strict conformity with the rules of the Establishment: they are to receive their orders from the Superintendent, and to obey his directions. They shall not absent themselves from the House, without his permission.

LABOR.

The Children shall be employed every day in the year, except Sundays, at such labor, business, or employment, as may from time to time be designated by the Acting Committee.

A LIST OF EMPLOYMENTS THAT MAY BE CARRIED ON IN THE THE HOUSE OF REFUGE.

The Children shall be fed with a sufficient quantity of coarse, but wholesome Food, in conformity with a Dietary to be established by the Acting Committee.

CLOTHING.

The children shall be clothed in coarse but comfortable apparel, of the cheapest and most durable kind. The cloth to be of a uni

form color, and the clothes of the same cut or fashion. All the clothes, garments, shoes, &c. must, if practicable, be made on the premises, and by the children.

FEMALES AND MATRON.

The Females shall eat their meals and lodge in a separate building from the males, with whom they shall have no intercourse or communication, except at family or public worship.

The Females shall be placed under the immediate care and superintendance of a Matron, or Female Keeper, who shall reside in the House, and shall at no time absent herself from the premises, without the permission of the Acting Committee, or the Superin tendent.

None but the Matron shall search or examine the Female Delinquents. She shall superintend their work, and take charge of the clothes and bedding of the Establishment. She shall accom

pany the Superintendent or Physician, whenever it may be neces sary for either of them to visit the apartments of the Females. She shall endeavor to unfold to those under her charge, the advan tages of a moral and religious life, and to impress them with a conviction of the evils and miseries that attend the wicked and profligate. She shall, at the season set apart for the purpose, teach them the rudiments of education, and instruct them in the business of Housewifery, &c. She shall be authorised to punish them for offences against the rules of the House, or for indecorum in their behavior towards herself or one another; and she shall keep a daily record of the occurrences, and regularly report to the Superintendent, such matters relative to their deportment and conduct, and the punishment she has inflicted, with the nature of the offence committed, as will be proper for him to lay before the Acting Committee.

PUNISHMENTS.

If any child shall refuse, or wilfully neglect, to perform the work required of him or her, or to obey the orders of the Superintendent or Matron, or Assistant Keepers, or shall use profane or indecent language, or shall assault or quarrel with a fellow-delinquent, or shall make a noise, or talk after having retired to the sleeping room, he or she shall be punished at a suitable time; and if, after this, such child persist in disobedience, he or she shall be confined in solitude, for such time as the Superintendent or Matron may direct.

If any subject shall strike or resist the Keeper, or attempt to escape from the House, or shall wilfully injure any article belonging to the Society, he or she shall be punished, except the same be remitted on application to the Acting Committee.

The Superintendent shall possess a discretionary power in awarding the punishment to offenders. He may try offenders by a jury of their peers, and inflict such punishment as they shall award, subject, however, to his revision. He shall, in all cases, enter on the daily journal, and report to the Acting Committee, a brief de tail of the offence, and the punishment inflicted for the same.

If it should ever be necessary to inflict corporal punishment upon females, it shall only be done by or in the presence of the Matron.

KINDS OF PUNISHMENT THAT MAY BE USED IN THE HOUSE

OF REFUGE.

1. Privation of play and exercise.

2. Sent to bed supperless at sunset.

3. Bread and water, for breakfast, dinner, and supper.

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5. Camomile, boneset, or bitter herb tea, for breakfast, dinner,

7. Corporal punishment, if absolutely necessary, or if awarded by a jury of the boys, and approved.

3. Fetters and handcuffs, only in extreme cases.

WARDSMEN OR MONITORS.

The Superintendent may, whenever in his opinion it shall be useful, appoint for each ten or more children, one of the Delinquents as Wardsman or Monitor, who shall be selected from the most orderly, well behaved, and best qualified for the purpose.

The general duty of the Wardsmen shall be, to observe the behavior and conduct of their respective classes; to see that they daily wash their persons; that their sleeping and work rooms are regularly swept every morning, and washed or scrubbed once in each week; that the rooms and bedding be ventilated and aired, and the night utensils removed and cleansed; and that decency and good order prevail throughout the class.

The Wardsman shall be authorised to select from his class, in rotation, one of the number, to perform the duty of sweeping, scrubbing, &c., and it shall be an offence against the rules, for any of the class to disobey the reasonable commands of the Wardsman. He shall report to the Superintendent, any improper act committed by a member of his class, immediately after its occurrence, in order that it may be corrected forthwith.

ARKANGEMENT OF TIME.

A Bell shall be rung every morning, one quarter of an hour be fore the unlocking of the lodging rooms, and also at the hour of unlocking, when every child shall be prepared to leave his room, in order to wash, &c. previous to going to work.

The time of beginning and leaving off work, of eating breakfast, dinner, and supper, of attending school, and of retiring to sleep, shall be in conformity with a table prepared by the Acting Committee, and each time shall be designated by the ringing of the bell, as the Superintendent may direct.

The half hour between unlocking and work, in the morning, shall be employed in washing and combing, in calling the roll, and in hearing a chapter read in the bible, and in such other moral and religious exercise as the Superintendent may direct.

On Sunday, the children after washing, combing, and shifting their clothes, shall proceed to the school or lecture-room, and shall be employed as in Sunday Schools, until the hour of breakfast; after which they shall be employed in the same manner, until the hour of religious exercises, and so throughout the day, with such relaxations, as the Superintendent may order and direct.

CLASSIFICATION.

The Boys and Girls shall be classed according to their moral conduct, and as soon as practicable there shall be four Grades or Classes formed, viz. No. 1, 2, 3, 4.

Class, No. 1. Shall include the best behaved and most orderly Boys and Girls: those who do not swear, lie, or use profane, obscene, or indecent language or conversation, who attend to their work and studies, are not quarrelsome, and have not attempted to

escape.

Class, No. 2. Those who are next best, but who are not quite free from all of the foregoing vices and practices.

Class, No. 3. Those who are more immoral in conduct than Class No. 2.

Class, No. 4. Those who are vicious, bad and wicked.

Badges, bearing the number of each class, shall be worn on the arm at all times in the day.

In case of improper and bad conduct, the children in Classes No. 1, 2, or 3, shall be transferred or degraded by the Superintendent to the lower or lowest Class. And for improvement, or good conduct, in Classes 4, 3, or 2, they may be transferred or promoted to a higher class.

The children in Class No. 1, who behave well, and are orderly and correct in their conduct, shall be rewarded Monthly by the Superintendent, in the presence of all the children, and of the Acting Committee.

Those children who have behaved well for three months in succession, shall be allowed to wear a badge of distinction and approbation.

Extracts from such parts of these regulations, as relate to the several classes of delinquents, shall be printed and hung up in several parts of the House of Refuge.

GENERAL REGULATIONS.

No spirituous liquors shall, upon any pretence whatever, (excep ting by order of the Physicians,) be brought into any part of the premises of the House of Refuge.

No species of gambling, nor of plays or games having a tendency thereto, shall be permitted at the House of Refuge.

The walls and ceilings of the wards, dormitories or sleepingrooms, and passages, used by the delinquents throughout the House of Refuge, shall be white-washed and thoroughly cleaned at least twice in each year; which work shall be done by the delinquents, except on particular emergencies.