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ihejirjl year, the fum required for the maintenance 

 of the poor was near two thoufand pounds lefs than 

 the fum raifed for that purpofe in the preceding 

 year : and they now derive a moft important pecu- 

 niary advantage from this eftabUfhment. The aged 

 and infirm are comfortably provided for, and the 

 young are trained in habits of indullr)* and virtue. 

 A complete flop has been put to the great frauds 

 and abufes that prevailed in the parochial expen- 

 diture ; and even thofe poor who have laboured 

 under temporary diitrefs or diiability, have been 

 more liberally alhfted and reheved in their ow?i 

 dwellings, than had before been found practicable. 

 Thus, while the poor have derived thefe important 

 benefits from the inflitution, the inhabitants have 

 alfo been greatly relieved in thiir parochial taxes. 

 The amount of the reduction in the term of twelve 

 years was very near twenty thoufand pounds. 



But a fliil greater advantage is derived to fociety 

 in general, and to the immediate objeds in parti- 

 cular, by the feeds of virtue and happmefs that are 

 carefully fown in the minds of the younger branches 

 of this httle community. Children thrown upon 

 the parifh from their birth are put out to nurfe, 

 where they remain till they are of age fufficient to 

 be admitted into the houfe. The nurfes are occa- 

 fionally required to bring them before tlie- direftors, 

 that thefe may obferve that care is taken of them, 

 and that the children may be identified, and thofe 

 frauds guarded againll which have not unfrequently 



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