That the Compilation may prove to be as correct as the nature of it will admit, and may thus serve not only as a source of information to those particularly interested in the subject, but also, by communicating to the Public in general the true state and the exceeding usefulness of this noble Charity, may conduce to an Increase in the List of its Benefactors, is the sincere wish of,
Your dutiful Servant and Secretary,
Bounty Office, 28th April, 1826.