The last year it had expended L700 currency, and had then in its treasury L600 currency.
Now, be it remembered that the Friendly societies exist solely among the freed negroes, _and that the moneys are raised exclusively among them._ Among whom?
A people who are said to be so proverbially improvident, that to emancipate them, would be to abandon them to beggary, nakedness, and starvation;--a people who "cannot take care of themselves;" who "will not work when freed from the fear of the lash;" who "would squander the earnings of the day in debaucheries at night;" who "would never provide for to-morrow for the wants of a family, or for the infirmities of old age." Yea, among _negroes_ these things are done; and that, too, where the wages are but one shilling per day--less than sufficient, one would reasonably suppose, to provide daily food.
DAILY MEAL SOCIETY.
The main object of this society is denoted by its name.

It supplies a daily meal to those who are otherwise unprovided for.

A commodious house had just been completed in the suburbs of the town, capable of lodging a considerable number of beneficiaries.

It is designed to shelter those who are diseased, and cannot walk to and fro for their meals.

The number now fed at this house is from eighty to a hundred.