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of not lefs than forty members, which (hall, within 

 the year 1783, be eftablifhed by labourers and 

 handicrafts-men, in any country town or parifli 

 where no fuch Society is at prefent inftituted. 

 The faid premium to be claimed as foon as the 

 faid Society, of not lefs than forty members, has 

 fubiiftcd one year. 



" All claims to be accompanied with a certi- 

 ficate figned by the Minifter and Churchwardens 

 of the parifh, containing an account of the num- 

 ber of actual members, and their names and occu- 

 pations." 



I have pre fumed to offer the above propofal on 

 this principle, that whatever tends to make our 

 labouring poor induftrious and good ceconomifts, 

 while in health, and to render them comfortable 

 when under affliction, is worthy your confideration ; 

 and that thefe Friendly Clubs or Societies have fuch 

 a tendency is, I think, felf-evident. 



A poor man, flattered with the hope of receiving 

 feven (hillings per week in any future ficknefs, 

 will either work extra hours for the three-pence 

 he has to pay, or fave it from the ale-houfe. After 

 he has been fome years a member, it becomes ha- 

 bitual, and the fear of lofing all the money he has' 



paid 



