Be. chon 
Tue promotion of manufactures depends on the number and 
fkill of thofe who engage in them. Inafmuch, therefore, as 
’ manufactures are ufeful to the community, exertions ought 
to be made to increafe the number and improve the {kill of 
manufacturers. 
To attain this end the following {cheme is fuggefted. I 
muft premife that this, like what I have thrown out. upon 
other fubjects, is offered, not as a perfect plan, but as one 
yet to be modified as the fite of peculiar circumftances may 
require. 
Lert feveral fchools be erected in different parts of the king- 
dom for the inftruction of youth in various branches of ma- 
nufacture ; fome for teaching the linen, others the woollen 
manufacture, others that of filk, of cotton, of hardware, and 
fo forth. The general outlines of the plan of each of thefe 
fchools I fhall attempt to delineate. 
1. Tuere fhould be a head matter well known to be per- 
fe€tly converfant in every branch of the department which 
he is appointed to fuperintend. This mafter fhould have the 
direction of the whole fchool, fubjeét only to occafional con- 
troul in the manner hereafter f{pecified. The falary of this 
mafter fhould (for obvious reafons), be derived either wholly 
or principally from a certain. proportion of the profits of the 
manufacture wrought in the f{chool. 
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