3. In each hospital intended to receive foundlings there shall be a
place where they may be left.
4. There will be at most in each district (_arrondissement_) an
institution where the foundlings may be received. Registers shall state
day by day, their arrival, their sex, their apparent age, and shall
describe the natural marks and the swaddling clothes which may serve
for their identification.
3D TITLE.
_Of Abandoned Children and Poor Orphans._
5. Abandoned children are those born of known parents and at first
raised by them, or by other persons for them, and are abandoned by
them, the whereabouts of the parents being unknown or there being no
means of discovering them.
6. Orphans are those who, not having either father or mother, have no
means of subsistence.
4TH TITLE.
_Of the Education of Foundlings, Abandoned Children, and Orphans._
7. Newly born foundlings will be placed with a wet nurse as soon as
possible; up to that they will be nourished by the bottle or even by
means of wet nurses resident in the establishment. If they are weaned
or susceptible of being weaned, they will either be put to nurse or
weaned.
8. These children will receive a layette. They will remain to the age
of six years.
9. At six years, all the children will be, or as many as can, put to
board with farmers. The price of the board will increase each year up
to the age of twelve, at which period the infant males in a state to
serve will be placed at the disposition of the Minister of the Marine.
10. The infants who cannot be put to board, the crippled and the
infirm, will be raised in the hospitals. They will be occupied in the
workshops at those employments that are not below their age.
5TH TITLE.
_On the Expenses of Foundlings, Abandoned Children, and Orphans._
11. Hospitals designated to receive foundlings are directed to furnish
the layettes and all the inside expenses pertaining to the nourishment
and education of the children.
12. We herewith set aside the sum of 4,000,000 francs annually to
contribute to the monthly payment of wet nurses and the boarding of the
foundlings and abandoned children.
If it should turn out after the division of this sum that it is
inadequate, the difference will be provided by the hospitals from their
revenues or by drawing on the funds of the community.
13. The monthly payments of the nurses and their board shall not be
made except on the certificate of the mayors of the communities where
the children are. The mayors must attest each month that they have seen
the children.
14. The administrative commissioners of the hospitals will visit at
least twice in the year each infant, either a special commission, or by
physicians or surgeons, vaccinators or others.
6TH TITLE.
_Of the Guardianship and of Foundling Children and Abandoned Children._
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