An Account of Public Charities in England and Wales
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Excerpt from An Account of Public Charities in England and Wales: Abridged From the Reports of His Majesty´s Commissioners on Charitable Foundations, With Notes and Comments There is no subject in our domestic polity, on which so little authentic information has been communicated as public charities. For the elucidation of the national history, and even the topography of the country, almost every source of intelligence has been thrown open; but of the numerous charitable foundations, scattered in every district of the kingdom, - of the amount of their revenues, - the purposes for which they were intended, and those to which they are applied, no precise knowledge could be obtained. It was a sealed volume, into which the parties really interested were denied access, and of which those only whose business was to administer, not to consume, had the perusal and interpretation. Like some other discoveries, it is more to accident than design that we are indebted for the first intimation of the state of charitable property, and for the opportunity now afforded for elucidating this obscure branch of public statistics. The first glimpse of light proceeded from the Education Committee, in 1816: this Committee was appointed to inquire into the provisions for the education of the poor in the Metropolis; in the course of these inquiries, it was incidentally disclosed that many rich endowments, appropriated to the instruction and maintenance of the opulent, were, by the ordinances of the founders, designed for the benefit of the indigent classes. 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.
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