[3] Now (1858) Secretary of the Board.
[4] To explain the apparent solecism of addressing a letter to President Townsend, detailing actions in which he had taken so important a part, it may be necessary to say that a standing order of the Board of Governors requires all official correspondence with them to be addressed to their President.
[5] See [Chapter XXXII.] for these questions.
[6] It is quite probable that the commercial and financial panic which commenced about the time these pages were nearly ready for the press, and continued throughout the winter of 1857-8, has added to the number of prostitutes in New York City, very likely as many as five hundred, or perhaps a thousand, but certainly not to the extent generally imagined. Allusions have been made elsewhere to the exaggerated estimates of the extent of this vice, and the opinions publicly expressed in regard to accessions to the ranks of prostitutes during the last few months generally seem to be of a similarly vague nature.
[7] Gen. xxxviii. 11.
[8] Lev. xix. 29; Deut. xxiii. 17.
[9] Ex. xxii. 19; Lev. xviii. 23.
[10] Ex. xxi. 17.
[11] Deut. xxii. 17.
[12] Lev. xv.