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ether means than birth or marriage. And an exemption to every 
perfon who fhould pay a halfpenny a day to it, from being re~ 
movable, till they fhould become actually chargeable. 
Were employers to be made refponfible for a halfpenny a day (or 
more in proportion to wages) for all labourers and workmen not 
belonging to the parifh, and liable to pay double for neglect, witha 
reward to informers, it would induce occupiers of land to encou- 
rage perfons to become parifhioners, inftead of their prefent endea- 
vours to depopulate the country; the effects of which were feverely 
felt in many places by the quantity of corn fpoiled, and the exorbi- 
tant wages paid in the harveit of 1792. 
Payments to be made to the parifh in which the mafter fhould re- 
fide, who fhould employ perfons to work for him in others; this 
would avoid difputes, and be fome compeniation for the number of 
perfons (ufelefs to agriculture) whoare fixed on country parifhes by 
apprenticefhip, and fervice, to thofe who pay very little to the rates. 
Monthly or weekly returns to be made to the overfeers of {tran- 
gers employed, and the wages they earned, and the money to be 
paid quarterly. The capital to be vefted on fimilar fecurities to the 
property of Wards in Chancery. 
The intereft to be remitted to the Clerks of the Peace, who fhould 
at the Quarter-Seflions receive the principal fums collected by the 
parith officers, and pay them the preceding intereft due. To be 
difburfed under the fame limitations as the poor’s rates are, before 
any rate fhould be levied in the refpeétive parithes. 
The accounts to be exhibited at all veftry meetings, and to the 
magiftrates acting for each diftriét. Whenever it fhall appear that 
the overfeers of any parish fhall have more than one year’s intereit 
in hand, fuch furplus to be paid to the county rate. 
And when any parifh fhall have contributed to the county rate 
for a {pecified number of years, fuch parith to be entitled to draw 
for a certain portion of its capital to repair the church, or be ap- 
plied to any other work which fhould be recommended by fuch 
parifhioners as fhould pay two-thirds of the rates, and be approved 
by the majority of magiftrates, who fhould have acted a fpecified 
time for the diftriét ; fhould their numbers be equal, the one who 
fhould have acted longeft for the diftrict, to have the caiting vote. 
MORDAUNT MARTIN, 
