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Miscellaneous remarks on the police of Boston : as respects paupers, alms and work house, classes of poor and beggars, laws respecting them, charitable societies, foreign and domestic missionary societies, evils of the justiciary, imprisonment for debt, remedies.

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Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Published and sold by Cummings & Hilliard, 1814
Series:	Making of the modern world (Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature)
Subjects:	Boston (Mass.) > Poor. Poor laws > Massachusetts. Electronic books.
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