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. Now if they have increafed in an equal progrcf- 

 fion fince the year 1773, which tlure is too much 

 reafon to apprehend; they muft (fuppofing this 

 calculation to be juft) have amounted in the year 

 1782 to 3,8oo,oool. (lerling; and the faving by the 

 plan here propofed will be increafed in proportion, 

 that is, to the enormous fum of 2,500,000!. and 

 this, even admitting the whole fum now raifcd for 

 the poor to be abfolutely neceflaiy, and that the de- 

 ficiency of the fums raifed by thefe contributrorts 

 muft be made up, how aftonifhingly great then will 

 be the advantages to this nation, Ihould the funds 

 alone, as they probably will, prove adequate to the 

 ends propofed by them ! ' 



Out of this fund every man, who is really incapa:- 

 ble of labour, fliall have a right to demartci' fix* 

 fhillings per week, for the firft fix months, Ihould 

 his illncfs laft fo long, and three (hillings per week 

 after that period, until he again becomes capable of 

 labour; every woman fhould have a right to demand 

 two fhillings per week for the firfl fix months, and 

 afterv^ards one fhilling and fix-pence per week, 

 until ihc is again able to work, i would aifo wi(h 



• I am inclined to believe that thefe proportioni are not the beft 

 which may be atlopted ; but they ai e fuch as the people have choleii 

 for themrelves, and perhaps it might not be iafe to alter them, at 

 l<;aft for the prefcnt. 



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