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and above the afllimed ilandard of proportion be 

 conftantly divided once or t^^ice a year among 

 the poor contributors, according to their number 

 of children. 



Either rule might be adopted, as mod fuitable to 

 the circumftances of the parifh or diftrid ; but the 

 latter may be found the moft ufcful, as being moft 

 liberal in its principle, and as tending to ftrcngthen 

 the afFedlion of the poor to their benefactors, which 

 is the fureft bond of good faith in fociety. 



Laftly\ Such a concurring meafure would bid 

 fair to fecure, almoft beyond a poflibility of mif- 

 carriage, the original purpofe of funding; the plan 

 being thus rendered doubly encouraging to the 

 poor, that eafe and energy of mind, which make 

 perfeverance a pleafure, may be expe6led to re- 

 main undiminifhed : — for an individual to ^"x^^ 

 would be to expofe himfelf to the reproach of all 

 around him. 



The conftant rccolledion that the fund is aug- 

 menting by the contribution of thofe not likely to di- 

 miniih it; or if not conftantly augmenting, at leaft 

 attentively aided by fuch perfons ; would fill moft 

 of the poor with gratitude^ which on the prefent plan 



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