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APPENDIX I.

THE following are the General Regulations issued by the CENTRAL BODY OF THE ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE OF PARIS, to the Bureaux de Bienfaisance, for their guidance:

1.

The Bureau is composed of the Mayor, President by office; two Adjoints, presiding in the absence of the chief; twelve Administrators, chosen for four years by the Minister of the Interior, from a list of forty-eight candidates, half of whom are nominated by the Bureaux, and half by the director of the Assistance Publique. Connected with the Commissaires' and Ladies' Bureaux is a staff of Doctors, Surgeons, Sisters of Charity, and Midwives.

2.

The Administrators are renewed from year to year in sections of three; and are indefinitely re-eligible. All vacancies that occur in the course of the year from death, resignation, or dismissal, go to make up the quarter to be renewed at the end of the year.

3.

The election of candidates for a vacant post of Administrator is announced in the session immediately preceding that in which it will take place. The report of the session's proceedings bears in the margin the names, titles, and residences of the designated candidates. The Bureau votes by separate ballots in the case of each distinct candidate.

4.

The retiring Administrator has no voice in the election.

5.

Candidates for the post of Commissaire or Dame du Charité are present in the session immediately preceding that in which the election is to take place.

6.

The Doctors, Surgeons and Midwives are chosen by the Prefect from a triple list of candidates presented by the Bureau. The form of their nomination is identical with that prescribed for the election of Administrators, Commissaires, &c.

7.

The elections are secret. An absolute majority is necessary to the validity of the election. In the event of an equal division of votes, the President claims a castingvote.

8.

The presence of seven members of the Bureau at least is requisite to constitute a deliberating and elective committee.

9.

The several branches of the Bureau's duties are entrusted to a Vice-President, a Secretary-Treasurer, a Manager, several Inspectors of Poor-houses and other establishments, Commissioners for the Adjudication of Relief, and one delegate at the Administration of the Assistance Publique. These officers are elected for one year by the Bureau, at the last sittings of December. They are exclusively chosen from the list of Administrators, and are always re-eligible. The Bureau reserves to itself the right to name-should circumstances require it a second special delegate to the Administration of the Assistance Publique.

10.

The functions of the Vice-President consist in presiding at the sittings in the absence of the Mayor and the Adjoints, in aiding the President in the administration, and in sharing with him the duty of general surveillance.

11.

The functions of the Honorary Secretary-Treasurer consist in surveying the publication of the transactions of the sittings and the general correspondence; in attesting all necessary extracts from the transactions; in countersigning the resolutions of the Bureau, and directing the execution thereof; in verifying the demands for relief handed in by the Administrators; and in advising the Bureau as to their admission, adjournment, or rejection.

12.

The Manager's duties consist in signing, after due verification, all orders to pay, being guided in this by the

provisions of the budget, and by the approved orders of the Bureau; in casting-up the accounts of the Administration at least once a month; and in communicating the result to the Bureau; lastly, in supervising the books of the subagents, and in keeping note of the financial situation of the office.

13.

The Inspectors of the Poor-houses are required to regulate, in concert with the Lady Superiors, the interior service of these institutions, inasmuch as regards their moral order and physical well-being; to superintend the reception of the poor, the distribution of medicines, fuel, and other material succour; to provide for the preservation and timely renewal of the furniture placed at the disposition of the Sisters and the poor; to submit to the Bureau all the different accounts for this service; to verify all bills for services rendered or to be rendered; lastly, on emergencies, to authorise the disbursement of sums not exceeding ten francs.

14.

The Commissaires are called upon to supervise the lists of claimants for relief, to frame the advertisements and the official accounts of the proceedings of each session, inasmuch as concerns the adjudication of relief; to ascertain the good quality of the objects furnished by the purveyors of the Bureau; to superintend their reception at the Secretary's office, or their distribution among the out-lying depots; to regulate the tariff of prices for materials and labour; and, after verification, to authorise the payment for such work or wares. cations.

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15.

The Delegate to the Administration of the Assistance Publique represents the Bureau in all assemblies or conferences where an envoy is required.

16.

The service of in-door and out-door relief is divided int twelve territorial divisions (three for each of the four quarters of an arrondissement), each of which is entrusted to one of the twelve Administrators.

17.

The post of Secretary-Treasurer is incompatible with those of Manager and Inspector of Poor-houses.

I.-ADMISSION TO RELIEF.

18.

Relief is only afforded to the indigent of French nationality resident in Paris during one year at least.

Foreigners are entitled to relief after a residence of ten consecutive years in Paris.

The possessor of an assured income of 250 francs and upwards has no claim to pauper's rights.

Inscriptions on the list of paupers are either permanent or temporary.

Comprised in the permanent inscriptions (green tickets) are the paupers who have attained the age of sixty-four, those incapacitated from labour by chronic and incurable disease.

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