This being done, a committee of overseers and guardians were appointed to superintend the institution: they being made choice of annually, meet every Monday for the purpose of examining the demands on the asylum drawing cheques for the amount of the bills on the cashier of the workhouse, and inspecting the state of the institution.

I'd be the partner of thy infant cares, And pour instruction o'er thy expanding mind; Whilst in thy heart, in my declining years, My wearied soul should an asylum find.

ORESTES Remind me not of those delightsome days, When me thy home a safe asylum gave; With fond solicitude thy noble sire The half-nipp'd, tender flow'ret gently rear'd:

There in this region is his celebrated asylum productive of great merit.

If it be the decree of the King that I return not to the sanctuary with thee to dwell, yet one asylum remainslow, silent, and lone, where kings have little power.

And there are features of the linear plan that can only be left out of our asylum structure at the expense of efficiency.