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three or four years from the middle order of the 

 inhabitants, with moderate falaries for their trouble; 

 and were the more fubftantial perfons of the parifh 

 to infped their accounts quarterly, and give orders 

 for fuch regulations as they might fee necelTary ; the 

 good effeds of fuch a method, I believe, would foon 

 be feen. I have ferved the office myfelf twice, the 

 laft time volmtarily^ as the parifh was very much in 

 debt, and the rates increafing; and from my expe- 

 rience I am convinced, that if my bufinefs would 

 have permitted me to have continued another year, 

 I fhould have been able to have reduced the pay- 

 ments much more than they were when I quitted 

 the office, though even then our debts were cleared. 

 But no perfon of a liberal turn of mind can be 

 perfuaded to continue the mere drudgery of the 

 office, though he might be willing to attend to the 

 regulations of it. 



I have thrown together my thoughts on this 

 fubjedl in hafte. And am, 



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Your humble fervant, 



JOHK ANSTIE. 



'Devizes y Nov. lo, 1783. 



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