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252 THE QUEEN ADELAIDE "NTAVAL FUND.
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_4 _» Admiral Sir Charles Adain , X . C . B ., Governor of Greenwich Hospital , when the Society was formed and officers appointed . At a
subsepart quent objects of meeting the contemp lan o it f lated was the , promoters and deemed in particular advisable to establish to to a declare state female more school that distinctl it . formed y the no
The following p are the modes in which the annual proceeds are app 1 lied . To . grant aid towards the education of orphans not in the
_" Royal 2 . To Naval appropriate Female sum School s not . " exceeding £ 12 to a certain number
of such pup grants ils of the are made Royal to Naval be those Female who Scho stand ol . first The in the pup list ils of to elected whom
candidates , and the grant to be continued while they remain at the school . These _jvupils to be styled Adelaide Scholars .
3 . To assist orphans in establishing themselves in any respectable situation 4 To in afford this , casual or other relief countries taking . into consideration the whole
circum . stances of the family , , to such orphans as shall be above the age when they cease to receive grants from the " Compassionate
Fund . " The working _exj ) enses of the Society ( which are very small , as
we have already stated , there being neither salaried officers nor hired rooms ) are paid out of the donations , and the balance is
invested from time to time in the public funds ; the dividends arising therefrom , and the annual subscriptions , being appropriated
for the relief of the applicants as above described ; and they think the fact that the Society was in the second year of its existence
able to relieve no less than fourteen most distressing cases , speaks volumes in its favor . The circumstance also that most of the
applicants are personally visited , and their position investigated by members of the ladies' committee , spares the candidates the expense
and the annoyance of a tedious and perhaps useless canvass , while subscribers have the best possible guarantee' for the proper
disposal of their benefactions . This custom has also been indirectly productive of great benefitas the ladies' committee have frequently
been able to find employment , for those whom they have visited , and to assist them in other ways .
In 1856 the Society had so far advanced that £ 136 was distributed in grants to the applicants during that year ; but with an
increase at the same time of £ 50 added to the permanent capital of the Societthe secretary was obliged to acknowledge that the
fund was far y , from sufficient to meet the requirements of those whom it seeks to benefit , * and an appeal was then made for
additional help in order that the Society might be more worthy of a eat maritime nation . Nor was the _ajDpeal in vainthe donations
received gr being twice the amount of those of the , previous year , and the annual subscription much in excess of every former year ,
besides which , upwards , of £ 445 was handed over to the treasurer
252 The Queen Adelaide "Ntaval Fund.
252 THE QUEEN _ADELAIDE _"NTAVAL FUND .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 252, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/36/
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