The Constitution of the United States, and the laws of New York State, are
followed as closely as possible, and other laws are made to regulate the
particular needs of the Republic.

All citizens, boys and girls, are required to work. Nothing is given away
in Freeville. The young citizens are paid for their work, and have to
support themselves on their earnings.

The boys and girls who will not work get no food.

In all large cities and communities, the people who have money are obliged
to pay a certain sum to help others who have none. Therefore men and women
who do not work because they are old or ill, are provided with food and
shelter from the money, or taxes, that the well-to-do have to pay.

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In Freeville it is different. All the citizens are young and healthy, and
able to work, so a law has been passed that no laws shall be made to raise
money to keep the idle. No money is set aside to keep paupers, and those
who do not work cannot eat. The result is, that there are no paupers or
tramps in Freeville.

The way the children earn their money, is by working from eight-thirty
till noon every day at farming, landscape gardening, carpentry, cooking,
millinery, and sewing.

They are paid according to their skill, and are divided into three grades;
unskilled, medium, and skilled labor.