Indenture agreements, 1851-1860.

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Indenture agreements, 1851-1860.

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This volume contains copies of contractual agreements between the reformatory managers, inmates, and employers (or "masters") to bind out inmates for vocational training until the age of twenty-one. The indenture system, which was authorized by the law that established the Western House of Refuge, operated until 1871, when it was discontinued by Superintendent Levi Fulton. However, no indenture agreements are extant for the period after 1860.

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New York State Archives

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