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2. Foundlings are those born of unknown parents, who have been found exposed in any place, or those taken to the hospitals intended to receive them.
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.