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18812301150003Civil Service Reform Association Boston Mass. 1881. First Edition. Art Prints & Posters. Very Good. American Civil Service Reform : Massachusetts : Good Governance in the Gilded Age Original Broadside. Sheet in excellent condition. Printed on blue paper. Two folds. Dimensions: 14 1/2 x 21 inches. Small ink stamp on bottom left corner dated 1881. <br> The broadside lays out the principles of good government. It offers quotes from President Grant and Gen. Garfield about the importance of civil service reform; the example of success in England; explains the core reason for the Civil Service Reform Association; a brief view of the Association's constitution; and a list of the principal officers. <br> The Association's President Moorfield Storey and other "Mugwumps" were strongly in favor of anti-corruption / good government reforms advocated by Grover Cleveland and other reformers. "The principles' of the Association were as follows: "That while certain officers of the Government should be in sympathy with the policy of the Administration the routine business should be conducted on business principles; that officers should be appointed on account of fitness for the work to be done and should be continued in office as long as they do that work well' that offices should not be used for partisan purposes; that Representatives are chosen to legislate and their time should not be given to the distribution of patronage; that the adoption of the well-devised system carrying out these principles will insure better administration and better legislation." Also includes a reprinted article on the Association from the New York Times February 19 1881. Civil Service Reform Association (Boston, Mass.) unknown
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1871229841871. Parliament House of Commons. Report from the Select Committee on Protection of Infant Life 1871 documents the development of state intervention into infant care mortality and childcare practices in industrial Britain establishing a foundational record in the history of child welfare law and public health regulation. Produced in response to widespread concern over infant deaths associated with "baby farming" the report supports research into nineteenth-century social reform gender and labor history and the emergence of legal frameworks governing child protection. Its findings informed subsequent legislation including the Infant Life Protection Act of 1872 and later reforms expanding state oversight of childcare marking a significant shift toward recognizing infant welfare as a matter of public responsibility rather than private domestic concern.<br /> <br /> Parliament House of Commons. Report from the Select Committee on Protection of Infant Life; together with the Proceedings of the Committee Minutes of Evidence Appendix and Index. London: Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed 20 July 1871. First edition. The volume records proceedings of a parliamentary inquiry directed "to inquire as to the best means of preventing the destruction of the lives of infants put out to nurse for hire by their parents." Contents include formal committee findings extensive Minutes of Evidence and appended statistical and documentary material. Testimony from surgeons coroners medical editors and local officials details infant mortality rates across London Lancashire Yorkshire and Scottish industrial centers. Witnesses describe systems of paid infant care including lump-sum "adoption" payments and weekly nursing arrangements that enabled maternal wage labor alongside accounts of infants transferred "generally immediately after birth" to low-cost nursing establishments. The report analyzes financial structures secrecy in lying-in houses and disparities in care tied to poverty and illegitimacy. Discussions within the proceedings reveal tensions between criminal law enforcement Poor Law administration and emerging public health authorities while tabulated data and narrative testimony together document patterns of neglect mortality and institutional response.<br /> <br /> The material documents the system of early child welfare regulation through parliamentary inquiry medical testimony and statistical evidence revealing how infant care practices were scrutinized categorized and brought under state oversight and providing primary-source evidence for the study of legal intervention in family life the expansion of public health governance and the consolidation of parens patriae authority. Issued at a time of accelerating industrialization and urban poverty the report demonstrates how gendered labor economic precarity and unregulated childcare markets contributed to infant mortality and prompted legislative reform. Large octavo; single volume; contemporary red cloth with black spine label lettered in gilt. Light rubbing minor surface wear and small spots to binding with edge wear; internally light toning and scattered marginal wear; text clean and fully readable. Overall condition: Very good. unknown
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2392320 June 1784. Paris. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica it was de Calonne’s efforts at reform which precipitated the crisis which let to the French Revolution. The present item is on a 31 x 22 cm piece of parchment. In good condition lightly aged darkened with a couple of closed tears. On the front is the main document beginning with printed text in square brackets ‘Je Charles Pierre Lavalete Conseiller du Roi en ses Conseils Garde de son Trésor Royal confesse avoir reçû comptant en cette Ville de Paris des héritiers du feu Fauveau de Frenilly Receveur général des Domains des bois de Poitiers La Somme de Trois mille Six cent Cinquante Neuf Livres dix Sept Sols Sept deniers’. The ‘Quittance’ is signed ‘Lavalete’. On the reverse the document is ‘Enregistrée du Controlle Général des Finances’ by ‘De Calonne’ dated from Paris 20 June 1784. In a nineteenth-century hand at foot of first page: 'See the back for the Signature of Calonne''. See Image Calonne signature. 20 June 1784. Paris. unknown
2001Q-1563089459Libraries Unlimited 2001-10-15. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Libraries Unlimited paperback
2001x-1563089459Libraries Unlimited Inc 2001. Paperback. New. bilingual edition. 244 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. Libraries Unlimited Inc paperback
22710Entry dated 13 September 1832. A nice piece of Edinburgh historical ephemera. See the entry on George Berry 1795-c.1874 the first man to register to vote there following the passing the Great Reform Act in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1874-1875 where he is described as 'an enthusiastic "Free Trader"'. 40 x 10 cm slip of laid paper with printed form on one side headed 'COPY of ENTRY in the REGISTER of QUALIFIED VOTERS for the CITY of EDINBURGH.' In fair condition lightly aged and creased with clean vertical cut unobtrusively repaired with archival tape. Endorsed on reverse in a contemporary hand: 'The first voting which took place on the Reform Bill'. The form is divided into eight columns and is completed as follows with manuscript additions in square brackets: 'No. 269 Date. 13 Septemr 1832. Name. George Berry Calling. Agent & Merchant Proprietor or Tenant. Tennant House Warehouse Shop &c. house 10 Antigua Street Street Lane or other Place or Residence. residing there Parish St Cuthbert'. Printed beneath the form is: 'Certified by me Conjunct-Clerk' and beneath this is the signature 'Carlyle Bell'. Entry dated 13 September 1832. unknown
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