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affijlance from the parijh in which he is Jtttlcd. Some 

 real benefit may aljo he added thereto— fuch as^ an ex^ 

 imption from highway duty for a certain time, or for 

 every as in the cafe of militia-men enrolled in their own 

 right, and not as fubflitutes. Other ufeful fervices to 

 a neighbourhood may likewife be rewarded in the fame 

 manner-, as for inftance, to thofe who prcjecute or make 

 difcovery of perfons guilty of mifdemeanours, and the 

 fever al degrees of larcenies and felonious offences. 



Thefe obfervations are fubmltted to the confider- 

 ation of the publick, as conftituting an expedient 

 for the better management and regulation of the 

 poor of this kingdom. And it is prefumed that, 

 by thefe means, the general body of the poor may 

 be fupported in the proportion of half the expence 

 which has been incurred, on their account, for any 

 given period of time within the laft feven years ; that 

 better order and regularity will be eftabliflied and 

 kept up among them; the national flock of induftry 

 increafed ; that the plan is eafy, fimple, and fpeedy 

 ir\ its execution ; and laftly, that the largeft county 

 in the kingdom will not require one hundred pounds 

 to carry the plan into pradlice, as the meaneft cot- 

 tage will, by the bounty propofed, become a work- 

 houfe for one family, fo long as it will be wanted : 

 a circumftance, it is imagined, of no ordinary con- 



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