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to haul water to the asylum; but has been able to do so only very irregularly and insufficiently. Sometimes the washing for the asylum is much delayed. If that asylum remain where it is, some of the lumber from the damaged buildings should be taken to make cisterns and 
case-troughs so that the institution may be independent in this respect.

But the asylum ought not to remain where it is. The buildings are quite similar to those occupied by the hospital of incapables. The hospital buildings stand on the ground bought by the Friends; while the Asylum is on private property. The Government can much more easily retain possession of this ground than a private association; and the water at the asylum would be sufficient for the hospital. The two institutions ought to change places. If the asylum were on its own ground, then conditions could proceed to make improvements, by uniting buildings, &c., so as to have