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any farther in this place ; nor indeed is it necessary 

 that I should enter into all the details of any of the 

 manufactures carried on in the establishment I am de- 

 scribing. It will be quite sufficient, if I merely enume- 

 rate them, and give a brief account of the measures 

 adopted to prevent frauds on the parts of the workmen, 

 and others, who were employed in carrying them on. 



In treating this subject, it will however be necessary 

 to go back a little, and to give a more particular account 

 of the internal government of this establishment ; and, 

 first of all, I must observe that the government of the 

 Military Workhouse, as it is called, is quite distinct 

 from the government of the institution for the poor ; the 

 Workhouse being merely a manufactory, like any other 

 manufactory, supported upon its own private capital, 

 which capital has no connection whatever with any fund 

 destined for the poor. It is under the sole direction of 

 its own particular governors and overseers, and is carried 

 on at the sole risk of the owner. The institution for the 

 poor, on the other hand, is merely an institution of char- 

 ity, joined to a general direction of the police, as far as 

 it relates to paupers. The committee, or deputation, as 

 it is called, which is at the head of this institution, has 

 the sole direction of all funds destined for the relief of 

 the poor in Munich, and the distribution of alms. This 

 deputation has likewise the direction of the kitchen 

 and bakehouse which are established in the Military 

 Workhouse, and of the details relative to the feeding of 

 the poor ; for it is from the funds destined for the relief 

 of the poor that these expenses are defrayed. The dep- 

 utation is also in connection with the Military Work- 

 house relative to the clothing of the poor, and the 

 distribution of rewards to those of them who particularly 



