1.  That a woman be appointed for the general supervision of the women.

2.  That the women be engaged in needlework, knitting, or any other suitable employment.

3.  That there be no begging, swearing, gaming, card-playing, quarrelling, or universal conversation.  That all novels, plays, and other improper books be excluded; that all bad words be avoided, and any default in these particulars be reported to the matron.

4.  That there be a good yard-keeper, chosen from among the women, to inform them when their friends come; to see that they leave their work with a monitor when they go to the grating, and that they do not spend any time there except with their friends.  If any woman be found disobedient in these respects, the yard-keeper is to report the case to the matron.

5.  That the women be divided into classes of not more than twelve, and that a monitor be appointed to each class.

6.  That the monitors be chosen from among the most orderly of the women that can read, to superintend the work and conduct of the others.

7.  That the monitors not only overlook the women in their own classes, but, if they observe any others disobeying the rules, that they inform the monitor of the class to which such persons may belong, who is immediately to report them to the matron, and the deviations be set down on a slate.

8.  That any monitor breaking the rules shall be dismissed from her office, and the most suitable in the class selected to take her place.

9.  That the monitors be particularly careful to see that women come with clean hands and faces to their work, and that they are quiet during their employment.

10.  That at the ringing of the bell at nine o’clock in the morning, the women collect in the work-room to hear a portion of Scripture read by one of the visitors, or the matron; and that the monitors afterwards conduct the classes thence to their respective wards in an orderly manner.

11.  That the women be again collected for reading at 6 o’clock in the evening, when the work shall be given in charge to the matron by the monitors.

12.  That the matron keep an exact account of the work done by the women, and of their conduct.

As these rules were read out, the women were requested to raise their hands in token of assent.  Not a hand but was held up.  In just the same manner the names of the monitors were received, and the appointments ratified.  After this business had been concluded, one of the visitors read the twenty-first chapter of St. Matthew’s Gospel; and then ensued a period of solemn silence, according to the custom of the Society of Friends.  After that the newly-elected monitors, at the heads of their classes, withdrew to their wards.

The work room was an old disused laundry, now granted by the sheriffs, and fitted up for the purpose.  Repaired and whitewashed, it proved a capital vantage-ground whereon to give battle to the old giants of Ignorance, Crime and Vice, and ultimately to conquer them.