Excerpt from The First Annual Report of the Association of Delegates From the Benevolent Societies of Boston: Read and Accepted October 13, 1835; To Which Is Added the Constitution of the Association In view of the cases of illmss which will be remember ed, and of extreme destitution, a more favorable result than this it is believed could hardly have been anticipa ted. We think we have here the most satisfactory evi dence, that, as an Association, we have not labored in vain. In view of the large number of our monthly ro ports, - for though not complete, the number of them was yet large, your committee were surprised to find that only sixty-four were assisted three times, and only sixty-five more than three times. We believe also that nearly all those who were most frequently aided, were of a class to require little, if any, short of the aid which they received. Had it not been, however, for the influence of this Association, -or, in other words, had the Societies in this connexion acted through the last winter, as they acted in former winters, without any knowledge of each other's operations, we believe, that, by a comparison of the records of the twenty Societies which have reported to us, a very difl'erent result might have been shown. The table we have given is as accurate as we have been able to make it. It speaks for itself, and scarcely needs our comments. 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.