VISITATION-CHILDREN OF 1871. Ninety-six (96) of the six hundred twenty-nine (629) children placed out in 1870-71 have been dropped from further observation, as will appear in Table No. 12, with the causes for such action; leaving, as already stated, five hundred thirty-three (533) of the number as subjects of visitation. To the ten hundred ninety-five (1,095) subjects of visitation that remained from the list of the previous year at the beginning of the year, has been added the five hundred thirty-three (533) that have become such since October 1, 1870 together they make sixteen hundred twenty-eight (1,628) the present number of the wards of the State on the visitation list of the Agency, or four hundred nine (409) girls and twelve hundred nineteen (1,219) boys. 35 112 REPORT OF THE STATE VISITING AGENT. The question is often asked by those who contemplate taking children, "Do not these children all run away?" A glance at the table will show that there still remain in place, of those out on trial or indentured one year ago,— Or that of the whole number out 61 per cent. are still in place. Terms of service were completed as follows during the year: The Primary School being created in 1866 and the Visiting Agency in 1869, but a few children placed out by such authority have yet arrived at majority, or the expiration of the term of service. There have absconded from place, that went out from, |