\fi. That in a bill to be brought into parliament, 

 claufes may be inferted to authorize the juftices of 

 the peace to order a bounty on work, in" certain 

 cafes, with a view to producing better effefts than 

 by giving money to the poor. 



1 ft. This has been put in pra^ke (hy recommenda- 

 tkn) for near fifteen or fifteen years paji \ and has 

 been found to produce an excellent effe5}. So that three 

 fhillings per week dtjpenjed hy the overfeersy but thought 

 injiifficient for the fupport of a family ^ confifling of fix 

 people i have^ by a different mode of difpojal^ in the way 

 of bounty y produced the comfortable income ofnineflnU 

 lings per week for the fupport of the fame family. 

 But later experience, introduced by the adiHce of a ma- 

 nufa^urer, has abundantly evinced y the greater benefit of 

 proportioning the propofed bounty to each floilling earned^ 

 as the latter methods apply to the quality cf work as well 

 as the quantity, l!he former to quantity onlyJ* 



idly. That certificates given agreeably to the Acl 

 of the 8th and 9th of King William the Third, and 

 other fubfequent afls, for the amendment of the 



• lllujtration. A. and B. are fet to fpinrting, and are promifed a 

 bounty on their work, in the proportion of fixpencc bounty to each 

 /hilling earned. A. draws her work to a finenefs of is. 6d. per 

 pound, and B. only to is. A. of courlc is entitled to nine-pence, 

 ivhile B. deTerves only fix-pence. 



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