Miss Mary Few.

HONORARY MEMBERS.

Mrs. Mary W. Mason.

ADVISERS.

Mr. L. M. Ferris, Jr., 5 East 17th st. "D. Willis James, 38 E. 31st st. "Charles Landon, 7 E. 14th st.

Mr. Wm. H. Onderdonk, Flushing.

Benj. Tatham, 35 Stuyvesant pl. "W. R. Thurston, 129 E. 15th st. Wm. F. Mott, Jr., 83 Irving pl. Augustus Taber, 316 E. 30th st. Mr. Samuel Willets, 24 Lafayette place.

Dr. William Frothingham, corner 158th street and 10th avenue.

CORRESPONDENTS.

Mrs. William II. Onderdonk,

Miss A. H. Shotwell.

TREASURER OF THE STIPEND FUND.

Miss S. F. Underhill.

The Board Meeting will be held on the second Friday of each month. The Executive Committee will meet on the Friday preceding, and the Education Committee on the Tuesday preceding the Board meeting.

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

Children may be admitted between the ages of two and eight.

No child shall be received without producing a certificate of health, signed by a physician.

Children shall not be indentured under twelve years of age.

Homes in the country must be invariably provided, unless there offer a good opportunity of apprenticing a boy to a trade.

Persons taking children must produce good testimonials of character, circumstances, &c.; a note from a minister is required, certifying that they are members of some religious denomination.

A boy is entitled, at the expiration of his term of indenture, to which sum his master should pay by yearly installments into the hands of the Treasurer, to be by her placed in trust for the child. But should he leave his place before the expiration of his time, or so misconduct that he becomes an unworthy object, this sum, or such as shall have accrued, shall revert to the institution. This rule applies equally to boys and girls.

It is requested that the person to whom a child is indentured shall communicate with the Board as to his welfare, before the expiration of two months.

Six months' schooling is required for the two first years of a child's apprenticeship.

Three months' trial will be allowed. If, at the expiration of that time, the child is insubordinate, he may be returned. After that the Board does not hold itself in any way responsible.

A child placed in the institution by a surviving parent or guardian with the intention of withdrawing when at the age of twelve, shall be charged 75 cents per week.

No parent shall be allowed to withdraw a child whose board has not been paid, or who can not offer security for its future payment. This should be clearly understood when the child is entered.

No child shall be transferred without the knowledge and approbation of the Indenturing Committee.

Miss C. L. Westerlo, First Directress, 109 East Fortieth street.
Mrs. Samuel J. Beebee, Second Directress, 64 West Fourth street.
Mrs. F. F. Randolph, Associate Second Directress, 302 Fifth avenue.

Mrs. James B. Colgate, Treasurer, Yonkers, New York.

Mrs. James Robertson, Corresponding Secretary, 54 West Thirty-sixth

street.

Miss Blakeman, Recording Secretary, 28 West Thirty-seventh street.

Mrs. R. M. Blatchford, 6 East Fourteenth street.

Mrs. F. S. Winston, 18 West Thirty-first street.

Mrs. B. B. Atterbury, Park avenue, N. E. corner of Thirty-sixth street.

Mrs. Leonard Corning, Roseville, N. J.

Mrs. William E. Dodge, 203 Madison avenue.

Mrs. James G. Belknap, 465 West Twenty-second street.

Mrs. J. C. Hull, Sixty-first street, East river.

Mrs. Anson G. Phelps, Everett House.

Mrs. John J. Phelps, Madison avenue, corner Thirty-sixth street.
Mrs. Richard Hunt, 49 West Thirty-fifth street.

Mrs. J. Van Buren, 88 East Tenth street.

Mrs. H. T. Darrah, 155 Second avenue.

Mrs. Charles E. Dodge, 24 West Thirty-ninth street.

Miss S. S. Phelps, Madison avenue, corner Thirty-seventh street.
Miss M. W. Booth, 33 East Ninth street.

Miss Palmer, 214 East Fiftieth street.

The House Committee comprises the entire Board of Officers and Managers, two of whom serve each month in turn.

Applications for admission may be made to Samuel Whitall, M.D., at the Home.

HISTORY OF THE COLORED HOME.*

In the autumn of 1839, a few ladies convened at the residence of Mrs. Maria Banyer, No. 20 Bond street. Their object in meeting was to take into consideration the destitute condition of our colored population, and to devise a plan for the alleviation of their unobtrusive suffering.

There were present upon the occasion, " Mrs. Maria Banyer, Miss Jay, Mrs. Wm. W. Chester, Miss Few, Mrs. Mott, Miss Miller, Mrs. Chrystie, Mrs. Goddard, Mrs. Innis, and Miss M. Shotwell."

The suggestion of the plan, it is believed, originated with Miss Shotwell; this was followed by a donation of $1,000 from Miss Jay for the acomplishment of the object.

"At a subsequent meeting, a Board of Managers was formed, a constitution framed and adopted, and the society organized under the name of 'The Society for the Relief of Worthy Aged Colored Persons.'

"The Board consisted of four officers, seven managers, and one adviser, namely: Mrs. Anna Mott, First Directress; Miss Mary Shotwell, Second Directress; Miss Few, Treasurer; Miss A. H. Livingston, Secretary; Mr. Parsons, Adviser."

From the last Annual Report of the Home.