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six and twenty-one years who may be voluntarily entrusted to 

 it for any or all of these purposes by the parent or guardians, 

 or committed to its charge by competent authority. 



Article VII. The institution designed to be established and 

 aided by this bequest, is to be organized and conducted on 

 the general principles and methods recognized in the Kauhen 

 House near Hamburg in Germany, and the Agricultural Colony 

 at Mettray in France, as described in Barnard's Naiional Educa- 

 tion in Europe (Edition of 1854), and in the Boston Asylum 

 and Farm School, incorporated in its present form in 1833, 

 and the New York Juvenile Asylum, incorporated in 1851, 

 with such modifications as may be by the Trustees deemed to 

 be better adapted to the peculiar condition of the people of this 

 State, or which may be suggested by their own experience or 

 that of similar institutions." 



The amount of the Watkinson Fund is now $207,000. Of 

 this sum $162,000 is invested in productive funds and $45,000 

 in land. The last sentence of the will gives the Trustees 

 authority to make such modifications as they may deem need- 

 ful for the industrial training of the inmates of the School. 

 If industrial education becomes a prominent feature of the 

 Institution, it will, in the words of the will, be better 

 adapted to the peculiar condition of the people of this 

 State." The principles and methods recognized in the Eauhen 

 House and Mettray School may be inferred from the follow- 

 ing statement: The "Colonic Agricole," at Mettray, near 

 Tours, in France, was founded in 1839 as an institution for the 

 reformation and training of children liable to become vicious 

 ^nd criminal. Besides receiving instruction in the necessary 

 school studies, they are taught various useful occupations, 

 such as farming, and the trades of the wheelwright, blacksmith, 

 joiner, carpenter, mason, shoe-maker, wooden-shoe-maker, 

 tailor, rope-maker, sail-maker, etc. 



The Eeform School of the " Eauhen House," at Horn, near 

 Hamburg, was founded in 1833. Here as at Mettray, the 

 " family system " is maintained. The labor performed includes 

 house-keeping and home-work, field and garden culture, and 

 such occupations as shoe-making, making and mending clothes 

 and bedding, carpentry and wooden-shoe-making, woolen-thread 



