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Addition to Sir Mordaunt Martin’s Scheme to alleviate 
the Poor’s Rates, Se. 
IT is a common complaint, that the lower clafs of people feldom 
fave any thing in youth, to prevent their becoming burthenfome to 
their parifhes in age. ' 
I know three inftances to the contrary, within a ftone’s throw of 
my door. Two of them lent their money to neighbours, who be- 
came infolvent. The third bought cottages, and lives comfortably 
in one of them, as he now works conftantly with me, But the laft 
time I had no employment for him, he was many weeks (I think 
thirteen) without a day’s work, becaufe the farmers knew he could 
not claim relief from the parifh, while he lived under his own roof, 
In an adjoining parifh (North-Creak) Iam told there have been 
two attempts made to eftablifh a Box Club, but from heavy charges 
in the outfet, they have both been bankrupt. 
Are not thefe difheartening circumftances, to men who muft pinch 
themfelves hard indeed, to fave what they have fo little profpeét of 
enjoying any comfort from? 
Could not agents be appointed (in-the firft inftance) by fuch per- 
fons as pay two-thirds of the poor’s rates in every parith, (or larger 
diftrict as might be found convenient) who fhould find fureties in 
proportion to the money that would pafs through their hands? In 
receiving quarterly, fuch fums as each individual of the diftriét 
fhould bring to him to be remitted to the office in London, propofed 
by Sir M. Martin, to alleviate the poor’s rates, &c. to be invefted 
in the name of the diftrict in a collective fund, from all the diftriéts 
in the kingdom, on fimilar fecurities to the property of Wards in 
Chancery ? Such intereft, as fhould be deemed by the infpeétors of 
the office appointed by parliament a proper dividend, to be remitted, 
at ftated periods, to the agents of each diltriét, to pay to individuals 
in proportion to their capital, deducting from the whole fuch a 
poundage as fhould be fixed to pay them for their trouble. 
The fum to be fub{cribed by each perfon at one time, not to ex 
ceed what fhould be limited, to prevent the wealthy crouding in 
large fums to gain influence, and lower the dividends to thofe for 
whofe benefit the fcheme is propofed. 
Every perfon to have a power of transferring his ftock, upon 
quitting a parith, to any other actual parifhioner. And of be- 
queathing 
