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Articte XIV. 
Addrefs to the Landbolders of this kingdom; with 
~ Puans of Corraces for the habitation of Labourers 
in the Couniry, calculated to fave the Expence of the 
Builder as much as ts pofible, without injuring ibe 
Health or Comfort of the Inhabitants thereof. 
By THOMAS DAVIS, 
STEWARD TO THE MARQUIS OF BATH, AND TO THE 
; RIGHT HON. LORD CARTERET. 
T being allowed, that manual labour is, and al- 
ways will be neceflary, for the cultivation of 
_ land; it follows that houfes, for the habitation of 
thofe who are to perform that labour, are indif- 
penfable. ) 
If the inhabitants of thefe houfes are in health 
and able to work, they will be able to fupport them- 
felves by the hire of their labour. If they are not, 
they become a burthen to the parifhes to which 
they belong, and the laws will oblige the landhold- 
ers to maintainthem. Topreferve the health and 
ftrength of thefe psor, but neceffary fellow-creatures, 
is therefore not only the duty, but the intereft of 
the landholders. Men of feeling will endeavour to 
do this from principle. Men without feeling (if © 
fuch men there are) will find it their interef? to do 
it. The firft f{tep towards this necefiary purpofe, 
is 
