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. BOSTON, I. R. BUTTS, NO. 2, SCHOOL STREET. delegates to make such reports of its proceedings as the general meeting shall deem it expedient or necessary to ask for. It is hoped that the several Societies will take the earliest opportunity of laying the Report before their members, and of procuring action upon either of the plans that shall meet their approbation. BOSTON, MAY 3, 1834. 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. BOSTON, I. R. BUTTS, NO. 2, SCHOOL STREET. The Notes given with this Report were not read to the Association. It is hoped, however, that they will not be thought an unsuitable ap. pendage. REPORT. THE Committee appointed by the Association of Delegates from the Benevolent Societies of Boston, to report upon the doings, objects and principles of the Association, would respectfully state;—that in a recurrence to the past the first of its operations, year, the Association has cause for very grateful acknowledgments to God, in view of the success with which its plans and efforts have been crowned. Twenty-six Societies are represented in the Association. Of these, however, two are for the support of infant schools, and two are especially for the employment of the female poor. Of the remaining twenty-two, whose objects are the collection and distribution of alms, twenty have made reports to the Association, of the names and residences of the poor whom they have visited and assisted, and generally of the kind and amount of the assistance given, and of the character and claims of those whom they have visited. In a book prepared for the purpose, these names are all entered in an alphabetical order, so that reference may in a moment be had to any name; and in connexion with each name, it may be seen at a glance by what societies any individual, or family, was assisted from October of the last year, till nearly the |