Partly-printed DS, one page, 9 x 11.5, June 3, 1912. Wilson commits a woman to the New Jersey State Institution for Feeble Minded Women. In part: “You will please admit Esther Britter…the age of twenty years into your Institution for instruction and support at the expense of the State of New Jersey for the term of one year…at the yearly sum of two hundred and thirty Dollars for clothing, and you are hereby authorized to draw from the Treasury of this State semi-annually for a ratable proportion of said allowance for such time as said Esther Britter shall receive instruction and support…You will please make a semi-annual report giving the time of admission, progress of learning, state of health, and such remarks as the situation of said pupil may suggest.” Two horizontal storage folds, light scattered creases, toning, and soiling, and a pencil notation to the upper right corner, otherwise fine condition. Governor Wilson enacted the legislation that made such involuntary committal possible in 1911, and a three-man board was empowered to determine if ‘feebleminded, epileptics and other defectives’ should be sterilized. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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