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9- Has the prafticc of ingroffing fmall fai-ms pre- 

 vailed within your knowledge, and if fo, with what 

 efFe<Sis has it been attended ? 



10. What were the habits of living among the 

 labouring clafs twenty or thirty years ago, and what 

 are they nowj do they now live harder than they did 

 then, or than they did at fome intervening period? 



11. Did the poor, twenty or thirty years ago, 

 ufe meat and beer, more or much more than they 

 did till the commencement of the prefent fcarcity? 



12. Do potatoes conftitute, about you, a mate- 

 rial part of the food of the labouring clafs ? 



13. Do the poor in general appear tolerably con- 

 tented in their fituation, or otherwife? 



14. What proportions and defcriptions of the 

 labouring clafs, when not difabled by age, or fitua- 

 tion, or ficknefs, receive parifli relief, how often, and 

 how long? 



15. Have the poor-rates been progreflively in- 

 creafmg for fome years pad ; and if fo, in what fums, 

 and in what proportions? 



16. Does any, and what, proportion of the labour- 

 ing poor about you belong to Friendly-Societies, 

 or Box-Clubs; and what appear to you to have been 

 the eifefts of fuch inftitutions? 



1 7. Were the common labourers wages fufHcient 

 to maintain a man, his wife, and four or five chil- 

 dren, without parifli relief, before the commence- 

 ment of the prefent fcarcity? 18. Have 



