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account, about a dozen of poor and indigent perfons belong* 

 inij to this parifh, principally reduced to poverty by old age 

 dnd diftempers. A fufficient fund f^r their maintenance 

 ^rifes from the contributions of the parilhioners, collected 

 on Sundays, and at the time of the facrament. It amounts, 

 at prefent, to about 20 1. Sterling a year, and is yearly in- 

 creafing ; and from it, a referve of 62 1. i s. 10 d. has been 

 made r.s a provi ion for bad feafons. Of thefe poor, fome 

 receive a quarterly, and fome a v;eekly allowance, accord- 

 ing as their necefiities require. The fund is managed by 

 the clerr^ymart and kirk feinon, who, being intimately ac- 

 quainted with the circumftances of every poor perfon in the 

 parifh, are enabled thereby to proportion the fupply to their 

 wants ahd exigencies. 



" This pariih afFords one among perhaps many inftancerf 

 in Scotland, how fafely the maintenance of the poor may be 

 left to the humane and charitable difpofition of the people, 

 and how unneceffary it is to call in pofitive laws to theii" 

 afliftance ; Jor, iffuch lawj provide funds for maintaining the 

 poor, they a!fo provide poor for confuming the funds.'''' 



As the proper maintenance of the poor, without fblnting 

 them too mucli on the one hand, or introducing wafteful 

 profuiion on the other, is a fubje^l of infinite importance in 

 civil focietv \ — and as the fyftem above alluded to is perhaps 

 the bell for thefe purpofes that ever was devifed, it is pro- 

 poled, in fome future numbers of this work, to explain it 



fully, fo that it may be made intelligible to ftrangers In 



the mean while, the Editor will be obliged to any of his 

 readers, who will tranfmit to him a ftate of the parochial 

 funds in any part of England in particular parilhes \ fo tiiat 

 the fums applied for that purpofe may be compared with 

 the num'.^er of perfons in the parilhes refpeclively. 



Number of Horfes, Cattle, Sheep. — The ufes that may be 

 made of thele liics, where completed, to mark the future 

 changes that ihall take place in this country, &c. are ob- 

 vious. — We cannot help regretting that thefe lills have 

 been, in fo many cafes, incomplete. The following is the 

 moft particular fpecification of this article we have obfrrved, 

 given by the Rtverend Mr. Robertfon of the paii(h of Dal- 

 meny. 



