If. after a child shall have been properly committed, . . . any circumstances should occur that, in the juilgment of said corporation would render expedient and proper a discharge of such child from the asylum, having a due regard to the welfare of the child and the purposes of the asylum, the said corporation . . . may, at discretion, discharge the child from the said asylum ... on such reasonable conditions as the said corporation may deem right and proper.

"This corporation shall be the guardian of every child, bound or held for service, by virtue and in pursuance of the provisions of this act . . . and it is hereby nmde its special duty to inquire into the treatment of every such child, and icdress any grievonce in manner prescribed by law."

An appsal for financial aid met with generous response, and the Protectory began its career of usefulness in two private dwellings in Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Streets, near Second Avenue, where, under the pastoral care of Rev. Father Clowry, who attended to their spiritual wants, the boys found their first home and shelter. The Christian ' Brothers assumed charge.

Notice of these partial arrangements had only time to reach the poor, or the benefactors of the poor,

■ Rev. B. L. Pierce, chaplain of the House of Refuge, in his book entitled " Half a Century with Juvenile Delinquents," makes the following statement :

"The officers of the Boys' Protectory l>elong to the onler of Christian Itrothei-s. They give thernselves to the Church when they take the vow of the order, to be teachers wherever they nmy be ajipointed to labor. They will never be priests ; they are expected to pursue no form of bus ines,s hereafter, but for life will remain in the office of instructors.