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^Iftingnifliedflnd avoided as profligate, let him be ftigmatized 

 as worthlefs and abafed for ever. 



Let the accounts of the treafirrer be audited every year, 

 and let the balance in hand, or the excefs of the fund be 

 declared proportionately to appertain to each individual fub- 

 fcriber, upon which, fuch fubfcriber fhall have a claim or 

 lion, fo far, as in the event of his removal, he may with- 

 draw^ it from that parifh, and inveft it in the fimilar fund of 

 the parifh to which he wiihes to remove ; but in this transfer, 

 the money muft on no account pafs through the hands of 

 the labourer, btit through the medium of the treafurers of 

 each parifh. 



This upon every occafion would prove an acceptable pre- 

 curfor, and infure the welcome of the labourer to his new 

 fituation. 



How different the whole defign from the melancholy ex- 

 perience of thoufands, who in the prefent day, and in the 

 cafe of fettlement only, are no longer treated as fenfible and 

 rational beings, but are hunted like wild bealls from parilh 

 to parifh, not becaufc they have offended againfl: the laws 

 of their country, or otherwife poffefs evil, which ought to 

 be avoided; but too often becaufe they may have piqued the 

 parifh officers ; or that fome of thofe gentlemen may occa- 

 fionally wifh for a frolick, at the expence of the parifh, or 

 for an agreeable excurfion in a port chaife : but this, together 

 with the immenfe funis annually expended in legal contefts 

 concerning the removal and fettlement of paupers, and 

 which are neceffarily charged to the account of the ,poor, 

 would on a certainty be faved, were an arrangement gene- 

 rally adopted, fomevvhat fimilar in principle to that above 

 ftated. 



With regard to workmanfhip, or the mode and manner 

 •f conducing labour, it differs fo very little from the 



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