INCORPORATED APRIL, 1849-ORGANIZED OCT. 1849.

OFFICERS....ACT OF INCORPORATION....FIRST ANNUAL RE-
PORT....BY-LAWS....RULES OF THE BOARD OF MAN-
AGERS....REGULATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT

OF THE HOME....TREASURER'S REPORT.

PRINTED BY MUNROE AND FRANCIS,

Devonshire-Street.

1851.

J31.844

Boston

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-Nine.

An Act to Incorporate the Association for the Relief of Aged Indigent Females.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled and by the authority of the same, as follows: Moses Grant, Charles F. Barnard and Lewis E. Caswell, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Association for the Relief of Aged Indigent Females, for the purpose of providing for the support of aged indigent females not otherwise provided for, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes, and for the purposes aforesaid; may take and hold real estate to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, and personal property to an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars.

Passed to be enacted.

House of Representatives, April 28, 1849.

FRANCIS B. CROWNINSHIELD, Speaker.

In Senate, April 30, 1849.

Passed to be enacted.

JOSEPH BELL, President.

April 30, 1849. Approved.

GEORGE N. BRIGGS.

Secretary's Office, Boston, May 31, 1849.

I certify the within to be a true copy of the original act.
WM. B. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

FIRST

ANNUAL REPORT.

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JANUARY, 1851.

THE Managers of The Association for the relief of Aged Indigent Females,' in submitting this their First Annual Report, deem it unnecessary to enter into a detailed explanation of the objects of the Association, as they have within a few months been fully set forth by the issue of circulars, and by a printed copy of the address of their President, delivered at the opening of the Home in May last.

At a meeting of the Board of Managers, held in November, 1849, it was found that the amount raised by subscription was sufficient to warrant a trial of the Institution upon a limited scale, and a committee was appointed with powers to procure and furnish a suitable building. That committee accordingly hired the house numbered 36, on Charles-street, on a lease of five years from April 1st, 1850.