REPORT OF THE SPECIAL AGENT FOR THE SICK STATE POOR,. lxxiii-cii THE WORKING OF THE LAW, lxxiii lxxiii Expenses of the Secretary's Department, 4 General Interest in Public Charities and Prison Reform, 5 1. Married Women and Children, PART I.-THE SETTLEMENT LAWS, The Origin and Principle of Settlement Laws, The Provisions of the Settlement laws of the State considered and 2. Settlements Derived from Property and Residence,. 8-19 8 10-19 10 12 3. Settlements Derived from the holding of Public Office, 16 Experience of Overseers of the Poor, Collated and Reviewed, 41 1. To Prevent the Breaking Up of Families and the Increase of PART IV. STATE AID TO DISABLED SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES, Circumstances requiring State Aid at the Beginning, Testimony of Town Authorities as to the Effects of State Aid, . PART V.-RECENT LEGISLATION AND ITS EFFECTS, The Legislation of 1871, . 1. The State Visiting Agency and Juvenile Offenders,. 81-95 81 81 82 83 83 84 88-95 96-103 96-103 96 4. House of Reformation for Juvenile Offenders, in Lynn, 5. Discharge of Persons confined as Insane,. 98 98 12. State Aid for Disabled Soldiers and Sailors and their Families, The New England Hospital for Women and Children, Boston, . 162 163 164 165 The Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth, . 166 The American Asylum at Hartford for the Deaf and Dumb, 166 166 State Almshouse, Tewksbury, State Almshouse, Bridgewater, Visitation of Children taken from the Courts, Investigation precedent to the Release of Children (Table 15), Seeking out suitable Persons to take Children, Children Supported by Cities and Towns (Table 16), 256, 269 258, 269 258, 269 280 283 284 285 PART II. THE PAUPER ABSTRACT (Tables XXV.-XXXVI.), 375-422 Officers and Employés of State Institutions, Prisons, etc., . 436-457 Institutions Aided by the State. Appropriations for 1871, VIII.-Expenditures in the County Prisons, 156 160 172-175 |