5 1 6 Address and Petition to the 



good, when it is known that a committee appointed 

 by His Electoral Highness, under the direction of 

 the Presidents of the Council of War, the Supreme 

 Regency, and the Ecclesiastical Council, will have the 

 sole administration and direction of the affairs of the 

 institution, and that the monthly collections of alms 

 will be made by creditable persons properly authorized ; 

 and that no salary or emoluments of any kind will 

 be levied on the funds of the institution, either for 

 salaries for the collectors, or any other persons em- 

 ployed in the service of the institution, as will clearly 

 appear by the printed quarterly accounts. By such pre- 

 cautions, we trust we shall obviate all possible suspi- 

 cions, and inspire every unprejudiced person with a 

 firm confidence in this useful institution. 



Henceforward, then, the infamous practice of begging 

 in the streets will be no longer tolerated in Munich, and 

 the public are from this moment exonerated from a 

 burden which is not less troublesome to individuals 

 than it is disgraceful to the country. Who can doubt 

 the co-operation of every individual for the accomplish- 

 ment of so laudable an undertaking ? We trust that 

 no one will encourage idleness by an injudicious and 

 pernicious profusion of alms given to beggars, and 

 by promoting the most unbridled licentiousness make 

 himself a participator in the dangerous consequences 

 of mendicity, and share the guilt of all those crimes and 

 offences which endanger the welfare of the state, injure 

 the cause of religion, and insult the distresses of the 

 really indigent. 



No longer will these vagabonds impose on good- 

 nature and benevolence by false pretences, by ill-founded 

 complaints of the inefHcacy of the provision for the poor, 



