Excerpt from Report of the Committee on the Subject of Pauperism and a House of Industry in the Town of Boston Those Overseers, farther stated that, in their opinion, every thing considered, the annual expense; within the Alms House did not exceed nine, or ten dollars per head, per year. The sub-committee Were satisfied, that this estimate did not underrate the actual expense particularly as there is no credit allowed in it, for one thousand days labour done upon the highways, by that portion of the able bodied tenants of the Alms House, who were capable of this species of labour. All the highway work of Marblehead being done, by the poor of their Alms House. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.