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Rules and regulations of the Board of Managers of the Alms-House and House of Employment.
Retrospective conversion record: In-house.
Charter of the St. Andrew’s Society of Philadelphia. : With a list of members’ names.
In printed paper wrapper.
Annual report. 1850
Caption title.
Lecture on immigration, and the right of naturalization. / By Thomas L. Nichols.
Title and imprint from front wrapper.
The reply of the Guardians for the Relief and Employment of the Poor of the city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark, and the townships of the Northern Liberties and Penn, : to certain remarks made in their presentments by the grand inquests inquiring for the county of Philadelphia, for February and April sessions 1849.
Library Company copy 112411.O bound in yellow printed paper wrappers; ink stamp on front wrapper: Duplicate Sold.
Thoughts on emigration
Author's name supplied from MS note on cover ; date from p. 2, paragraph 1.
At a meeting of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, held at the Tontine Coffee-House, on Monday, the 19th of December 1796, the following rules were read and agreed to,
Library Company copy has a manuscript docket title: Mr Michl Hogan Regulations of the Society of St. Patrick at New York 1796 Danl. McCormick Esqr President.
Hibernian Society for the Relief of Emigrants from Ireland [membership certificate] [graphic] / J. J. Barralet invet. et delt.; H. Houston sculpt.
Membership certificate for the relief society, later the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, organized in Philadelphia in 1771. A large central oval contains an allegorical scene showing the classical figures of Hope, Columbia, and Concordia near a column…
Foreign pauperism in Philadelphia : a memorial to the legislature of Pennsylvania exhibiting reasons for the amendment of certain laws in relation to the poor and to foreign emigrants, with the bill annexed
"Resolved, that H.A. Stephens, Esq. be requested to prepare a memorial and bill to be presented to the legislature of Pennsylvania, praying that some provision may be made for defraying the travelling expenses of destitute emigrants into the…