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farmers can have constant employment. The wholesale 

 dealers are few in number compared with the other 

 classes, and in general the country-people seem to appre- 

 ciate more the benefit of the savings-banks than the in- 

 habitants of the towns. The deposits are made after the 

 harvest, and especially in September and at Christmas, 

 when the corn is sold. A part is withdrawn once a-year, 

 when the payment of the rents falls due. 



The small farmers usually deposit the dowry of their 

 daughters, 2QL or 30/. This sum is withdrawn from the 

 bank when they marry. 



REMARKS. 



These two kinds of establishments have been 

 so little introduced in Ireland, and so generally in 

 England, that we must defer speaking of the effects 

 they produce until we come to that part of the 

 Inquiry. 



