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great results indicated by your COMMITTEE, 10 wit
making labor the uniform condition of relief TO the
able bodied poor, and educating the infant paupers
In such well regulated and syste habits ot la
bor as will teach them early the necessity and the
means OF providing for themselves, and render them
capable ofready usefulness when they transerr.
ed from the asylum 10 the trade or service in which
they are to earn their livelihood. This plan con,
templates, OF course, sale OF the Farms scheo
property on Long Island, and sale Of the property
at Bellevue; that is TO say, the whole OF the two
hundred lots lying between Twenty.fourih and
Twenty-sixth streets and the Second Avenue and
the water, and ns many OF those lying between
Twenty-sIx and Twenty-eght streets and the Se-
cond Avenue and the water as may not be deslra.
De or necessary to retain for the purposes OF house
OF detention tor temporary uses, Tor the occasional
disposition OF prisoners and pauptrs previous 10 the
transfer 10 the Island, and Tor the final conversion
OF the Aims House proper into Ci'y Hospital"


Further, " Your Comm ttee would suggest the
erection upon Backwels Island Of a suitable build
ing 10 br used as n House Of Reformation, thai
should unite the character of prison and work
house, Tor the confinement and employment VI
vagrants and mendicant-, whose destiiutoi ~ the
consequence OF their vices, and whose condition.
without absolutely requiring severe or infamous
punlshmen ,rendeis them unable 10 earn reputable


livelihood. This class should be removed altoge
theY from the unfortunate and virfuous poor, with
out being absolutely identified with those who hav.
been guilty OF actual and Infamous crimes. There
are many who, alter having suffered ihe punish.
ment which the law attaches to their offence, and
thus cxpiated the eye OF the law, unable in
Of this offence to any situation
in society which will enable them to earn an hon.
est support The same lsirequently the lot OF Other
offenders, who may have escaped the penalties Of


the law but with whom the loss OF character is The
loss OF the means ei eisubsisicnce. Society demands
that all these classes should have place OF refuge
and reformation, and II should be neither prison
nor workhouse, but an institution which partakes
OF the character of both"


Thus building is suggested TO be on Blackwell =
Island. In conclusion the Report states, " II will