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the treasurer and the superintendent Of
that institution.
Board of Children's Guardians.

Board of Children's Guardians.
The total number of wards of the board
of ch!ldrens guardians is now go, dis
tributed follows: In private homes, at
public coast for Inspection only. on trial.
Al; indentured, So; apprenticed, 8; boarded
at public cost in private homes, IS; board
ed at public cost in institutions, 46; feeble
minded at Elwyn, Pa, and at Falls Church,
Va, %. The appropriation for this agency
is 10000. out of which there is paid the
support of Predetermined dependents at in
situations outside of the District, as well
as that of few wards at the Tuskegee
Normal Institute in Alabama, St. Mary's
Industrial School Of Baltimore and the In
dustrial School for Coiored Children at
Manassas, Va. The number of cases ex-
amined by this board during the last fiscal
year is 3o7, and the number of children
committed as wards by the courts, 40.
The members of the board of chlldren's
Guardians are appointed by the judge of
the Criminal Court and the police justices
of the city, and it is strictly official
agency. Its guardianship continues dur
ing the minority of its wards, who, under
the law, must be inspected by it's agents
at least once a year. Such systematic in
specton of dependents and continued re-
spoEsibility for them is the most strongly
distinctive feature of this agency. Of it's
wards LII white and 1876 are colored.
Exclusive of the feeble-minded, many of
whom were in public charge previous to
the creation of the board, it's wards, who
may be styled waywards by way of dis
JUNCTION, are 10 white and 160 colored.
The Humane Society.
During the last fiscal year the agent Of
the Humane Society has investigated 312
cases and placed 15S children in various in
situations. of whom 127 are white and 81 col
this work, except that for the salary of
the agent policeman of the District,
IoS0 per year, and he has the use of the
transportation facilities of the police de-
partment. Other expense is not necessary
in this case, as persons arrested are cared
for by the criminal authorities and, in
other instances transfers are made by the
agent direct to institutions from the pre-
Vious abiding places of the children.
In the above review of minor dependents
OF the District mention has been made Of
religious denominations only in cases in
which institutions are managed by sister
hoods and no salaries are paid. Moral in
structson of some kind is, of course, given
in all of them, and in the official fnsttu-
tons, as the reform school Of the District
opportunity is afforded for worship of the
different churches.
Private Agencies.
There are several important child-ca ring
agencies in the District which DO not now
receive any public aid, but gratitously
support children who would otherwise be
public charges. Among such are the Wash
ington City Orphan Asylum and ST. Vim
cents Asylum each with an average Of 100
inmates, and the Hcme for Friendless Col
ored Girls, with ID inmates. There are also
naturally number of minors among the
deaf and dumb. the insane, and the inmates
of hospitals, the aims house and work
house, as well as in institutions for tenn
porary refuge, such the Young Women's
Christian Home and the Hope and Help
Mission. Altogether the dependent minors
of the District supported through public
and private funds devoted to charities and
correction number about 1900 souls.