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So tliiat in faA ll. 8s. is all that he has difburfcd in 

 the (pace of feven years, or 4s. per annum; a tri- 

 flirigTum indeed, when compared with the advan- 

 tages he might, if neceflary, have derived from the 

 inftitution; but after all there remains in ftock 36I. 

 tk's. One forty-eighth part of which, or 15s. 2id. 

 liiay be confidered as his property, fo that he has, 

 in reality, in the courfe of feven years, //^;/^ no more 

 than I2S. 9ld. or is. lod. per annum.* 



That the income of the fund may fufFer no dimi- 

 nution or interruption, every difabled member con- 

 tinues to pay his monthly conrribution as at other 

 times, although he is upon the fick lift. 



Now if lb frriall a contribution as one Ihilling irt 

 a month, or one twenty-fourth part of a common 

 labourer's wages, be fufficient, iox forty years together y 

 permanently to maintain a flmd more than adequate 

 to the purpofe of affording to each member a com- 

 fortable fubfiftence when affl idled with ficknefs, or 

 cxhaufted by age, might not k fund be drawn from 

 the people at large upon the fame principle (almoft 

 without their feeling it when in health and prolperity) 

 fufficient, or nearly fufficient, to fupport them in 



* Not above one-icventb part of the fum origiiiially paid, tbree^ 

 pence per week. 



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