L.—It very poor people give birth to a female infant, and circumstances render it difficult to rear her, they may carry horta the Foundling Hospital, where she will be taken charge of, so that no fear need any longer ist of their not being able to rear her.
ho deliberately drown their daughters are cruel, outrageous, ferocious, and unnatural, and no leniency can be shown them; it will be necessary to enquire closely into the matter, and restrain them by legal measures, '2.—Cases in which vowly-born infants have been drowned must be known to the immediate neighbours, from who it must be difficult. to conceal the facts. In future cases of infant-drowning, the neighbours ed to come forward collect If any favour or connivance in shown, as soon as ever this is discovered ar reporte after investigation by the lean, gentry, the'fathor of the drowned girl will rely pu according to Jats, and ours Id equally accountable, mount. always, be the hundred men are hereby charged hienceif iB wentry forward to take notice of midwives in the respective villages who may dare to assist in drowning female infante, Theleading gentry, the hundred-men, members of families, and neighbours are authorised to ascertain and send in the names of such midwives, and apply for their punishment a accomplices, 4.—The gentry and elders will make enquiry amongst the hundred-men j the bund:
j-men amongst heads of families, and heads of families amongst their neighbours in this way the chisel will [do ite] work under [the blows off the hatomer, and enquiry will be easy. If any cases of infantici occur, and the family elders or hundred-men assist at or conceal such, instead of exposing them, as soon as ever they are found out or complained of, they will be punished thus assisting or concealing. As the leading gentry, heads of families, hundred-men an neighbours are thus entrusted with the power of exposing those offences, precautions must the taken against malicious accusations spring-in avy such malicious infant drowning are made, and substantiated before the courts, the accuser will bear the penalty he seeks to impose, and no leniency will be shown."
year, Sth month (October, 187.)
—Foockow Herald.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.