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It will be no miracle if, under these better influences and with maturer years, more or less of the inmates become capable of taking care of themselves elsewhere and by their own efforts.

This custodial asylum for adult idiotic and imbecile females was established mainly though the suggestion of the Board of State Charities. The immediate charge of it was intrusted to this board of trustees, because the work was in some respects supplementary to our own. The trust has been fulfilled with two purposes in view. The first, to keep down the expenses of the inmates to a point not much in excess of the cost of their maintenance in the county poor-houses.

By that means, the burden of their support would be not much increased, while their condition was much improved. The second, to develop the intelligence and moral sense of the inmates.

The degree of success that has attended the discharge of this trust will be seen, on the one hand, in the financial statements of the asylum, presented from time to time; and on the other, in the testimony of the official visitors appointed by the State and the county superintendents of the poor.

The liabilities of the Custodial Asylum on the 3d of October, 1882, were merely the bills for the month of' September, amounting to about $1,300.

The cash assets at the same date were:

E. W. LEAVENWORTH,
N. F. GRAVES,
ALFRED WILKINSON,
H. B. WILBUR,
Special Committee in charge of the Custodial Asylum.