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per week: this sum Mould amount without interest in 20 years 

 to S40SO. The probability is, that it would not with ordinary 

 management reach half that sum. Deposited regularly in a 

 Saving Bank, it would yield at four per cent, nearly §7000, 

 or a clear annual income of from 300 to 400 dollars. 



A journeyman mechanic can earn from 7 to S dollars a week 

 (say 7): suppose him to be 21 years old, and that he remains 

 unmarried for 7 years — h's board and washing will cost him 

 g3 per week, and all his other expenses need not be $1 50 per 

 week more. He will then lay up $2 50 per week; which sum 

 would produce in seven years, in the Savings Bank, at 4 per 

 cent, above §1000; and lie would be possessed of an ample ca- 

 pital for establishing himself as a master workman. 



(H. p. 28.) 



\ more particular notice of the objects to which a Secretary 

 of the Home Department might, with infinite advantage, attend, 

 may be useful. And, first, as to Roads. Travellers have fre- 

 quently remarked, (and some of them in terms not the most 

 mild), the miserable state of the roads between the interior and 

 the Atlantic States; and even asserted, that one of the worst roads 

 in the country (at a time when it ought to be best), was that 

 leading from the populous and wealthy city of Baltimore, to 

 the seat of the National Government. In connexion with the 

 subject of roads, it will be of obvious utility to acquire, by a 

 correspondence with liberal men in Europe, and especially in 

 England, the knowledge of the best mode of constructing 

 roads; and when obtained, to publish it, for the benefit of the 

 many hundred turnpike roads in the United States, not one of 

 which it is believed has been constructed upon the best princi- 

 ples. An experiment of a few miles might also be made of a 

 road formed upon the improved plan, in the District of Colum- 

 bia, to serve as a model: and this would probably have more 

 effect in inducing others to adopt it, than a general recommen- 

 dation of a plan not tested in this country. It is understood 

 •hat during the last few years, great improvements have been 



