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CHARITIES FOR WOMEN. 219
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Such This Been Very Referred Interesting...
cameand tlie nation had leisure to attend to many urgent questions of int , ernal policywhen the condition of the poor-laws and that of
the laboring classes , were such as to lead to serious apprehension in more breasts than those of statesmen , all the collateral points of hamthen
necessitated reforms came under notice . Lord Broug , Mr . thi Broug s question ham , was of Charitable amongst the Trusts first , and to none inaugurate of his illustrious the discussion services of
in the _ca / ase of legal reform have been more productive of excellent effect . After much preliminary labor and the publication of his celebrated letter to Sir Samuel Romilly on the " Abuse of Charities , " ht
which letter was so extensively read , that it ran through eig which editions constituted in a few days the , ori he inal obtained Charitable in 1818 Trusts , an Commission Act of Parliament . The g
tional powers charities charities of this and Commission as , but earl afterwards as 1820 , in the the they first commissioner instance were extended , were s made limited generall a report to y educa to , all in - y
country which they that , pointed until some out to cheap the attention and expeditious of the leg mode islature of dealing and of with the the abuses of charities was instituted all enquiry on the subject
would be idle . This Commission continued its functions under Acts of Parliament , until they terminated in 1830 . Other commissions in 1837
filled were subsequentl no less than y appointed thirty- , ei and ght their closel Reports y printed , concluded Cranworth folio _volumes said in , ,
and involved a mass of evidence , which , as Lord his speech on the second reading of the Charitable Trusts Bill , would " take half a life to master . " But the summaries being more called to the ctand
readablethe attention of parliament was subje , various governments , attemp . ts The to reli settle gious the point question s of the wer and subj e made ineffectual ect int b erfered y successive how ts
length ever at leg with islation , in unanimit 1853 led , to to y the . the But passing constitution these of frequent the of Charitable a new commission Trusts Act attemp , . and The at mode
of great seve dealing n necessit hundred with y was the and thus abuses sixty obtained of out trusts of of , an a of cheap which aggregate and twenty expeditious of -two twenty thousand -eight
thousand eight hundred and forty were under thirty pounds , and thirteen The value thousand of these under trusts five for pounds the education a year . and the support of the
poor annexe may d to be the jud Reports ged , when of we the learn Charity , from Commissioners the summary , that of the the returns " rent
of the landand other fixed property , and the interest of the money left for charitable , in England and Wales amounts to
£ 1 , 209 , 396 a year . purposes It is believed by those best qualified to judge correctlof such mattersthat with proper management this return
might be y increased to at least , £ 2 , 000 , 000 per annum . " ( M ' Culloch ' s devot " British With ed to such Emp the sums ire he , l at 4 of th disposal edition old , with , vol th no e 2 , inconsiderable u p estio . 713 n . is are portion the effects of them they q ,
_vol . ii . p age , n 2
Charities For Women. 219
CHARITIES FOR WOMEN . 219
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page 219, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/3/
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