Every morning the school-rooms, hospital, work-rooms, passages, and-dormitories shall be swept; the pans emptied, the dirt and ashes, and all filth and rubbish collected in the yard, removed to the place appropriated for the same. The school-rooms, workrooms, and sleeping-rooms, shall be washed once a week, or oftener if requisite. The doors of all the sleeping-cells, and also the windows, when the weather will permit, shall be kept open during the day.

The bedding of the House shall be hung up to air, whenever the Superintendent shall require it. The straw in the Mattresses shall be changed, and the corn husk Mattresses scalded and washed as often as the Physicians may think proper. The blankets and bedding shall be washed frequently, and in all cases clean bedding shall be provided for every new delinquent.

No delinquent of any description, shall, on any account whatever, be confined in any apartment under ground, or where there is not sufficient light and ventilation.

Every delinquent, seized with any disorder, shall be forthwith removed to the Infirmary; and, in case of any putrid or infectious disorder, to the Hospital. The dormitories, from which he or she was taken, shall, immediately after such removal, be cleansed, fumigated, and white-washed.

Bibles and Testaments, and such elementary books on Natural History, Juvenile Biography, Voyages and Travels, as may be thought necessary, shall be provided for the use of the children, to be distributed among them, at the discretion of the Acting Committee.

The Superintendent shall present all written applications for apprentices and servants to the Acting Committee, by whom they shall be approved before they are granted; and no child shall be put to service out of the House, unless under regular indentures from the Society.

A Bible and printed paper of advice relative to his or her future conduct, shall be given to each delinquent when so apprenticed.

The term of the apprenticeship of the Girls shall not extend beyond the age of 18 years; they shall not be apprenticed to unmarried men, nor placed in boarding-houses, or academies for boys.

At every Anniversary Meeting of the Society, the several Boys and Girls who have been apprenticed by the Managers, and who shall appear at such Meeting, in a clean dress, and produce a written testimonial from their master or mistress of their good behavior during the preceding year of their apprenticeship, shall receive a reward or prize, as a token of approbation from the Society.

Donations to the House of Refuge will be thankfully received by the Officers and Managers of the Society.

The payment of 50 dollars, or of 10 dollars per annum for six years, constitutes a person a member of the Society for life; and an annual subscription of 3 dollars, a member so long as it is continued to be paid.

A complete list of the Donors and Subscribers to this important Institution, will be published in the next Annual Report.