Addresses of Rev. H.W. Bellows, and R.D. Hitchcock

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Página 41 - New-York;" and by that name shall have perpetual succession, power to sue and be sued, to make and use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure...
Página 43 - If the indebtedness of any such company shall at any time exceed the amount of its capital stock, the trustees of such company assenting thereto shall be personally and individually liable for such excess to the creditors of such company.
Página 45 - ... rendered productive and of service to his family. With the Asylum there will be connected workshops, in which each patient, as soon as his condition will permit, will be regularly employed, thus making the Asylum a self-supporting institution. It will be seen that the community will thus be relieved of the burden of maintaining inebriates in almshouses and prisons, who will be separated from the society of those incarcerated for public crimes, and placed where their inebriety will be treated...
Página 45 - I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law. . — •«• — . Given under my hand and seal of office at the city ^ SEAL.
Página 4 - ... or until the said capital stock shall be subscribed for. § 12. This act shall continue in force for the period of fifty years, subject, however, to amendments, modifications and repeal by the Legislature ; and at the dissolution of said institution, the asylum and the grounds attached thereto shall be ceded to the State of New York, to be used by said State for some benevolent institution. § 13. Nothing herein contained shall be construed or held as intending to confer -any banking or insurance...
Página 43 - York, and such other places as they may determine, to open books to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of said Asylum for the period of sixty days, or until the said capital stock shall be subscribed for.
Página 46 - They are as much objects of public humanity and charity, as mad people. They are indeed more hurtful to society, than most of the deranged patients of a common hospital would be, if they were set at liberty.
Página 43 - ... commissioners, or a majority of them, shall convene the said stockholders, by public notice, to be given as aforesaid, and at such time and place as they shall designate in...
Página 38 - I will present : Philadelphia, Sept. 24, 1854. EX-GOVERNOR HUNT — Dear Sir : I take the liberty of addressing you on a subject that deeply interests me. Having seen your name connected with a benevolent institution, and heading a list of Directors of the highest respectability, I have chosen you, sir, as the only one whose name is familiar to me, for the information I need in regard to the institution of the United States Inebriate Asylum. I am the mother of an unfortunate son, whose present situation...
Página 41 - ... 4. The object of this institution shall be for the medical treatment and control of the inebriate, and for that purpose it shall have power in its corporate name, to take, purchase and hold real estate in the State of New York, and erect thereon a building or buildings suitable for the purpose of an asylum hereinbefore named, and to take, purchase, hold and convey such personal property as may be necessary to carry out the object of said asylum, and for no other purpose whatever. Said asylum...

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