In consequence of the recommendation in the letter of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent to this Assembly : respecting the increase of crimes, and the education of the poor, and in pursuance of the pledge given by the Assembly in their answer to the said letter : it was moved and unanimously agreed to that a committee be appointed to take under their consideration the most effectual measures for providing the means of religious instruction for the unhappy persons confined in our prisons and bridewells and for the performance of religious worship in these places and also for the education of the poor, particularly in large and populous cities /
Church of Scotland.General Assembly
[Edinburgh : General Assembly of the Church of Scotland,
1819?].
Caption title.
At head of title: Edinburgh, 22d May 1819, Sess.3.
Church of Scotland. Committee on Prisons, &c.
Poor
Prisoners