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calculation and allotment of the amounts to be set 

 apart for particular branches of the Society's work. 



A sum of ^500 was allocated in 1765, for dis- 

 tribution in sums of ^5 each, to discharged soldiers 

 and sailors, who had served the King outside Great 

 Britain and Ireland, and who took farms of 5 acres 

 to 20 acres in extent, on leases for lives, in Munster, 

 Leinster, and Connaught. Candidates for these pre- 

 miums should have been for one entire year settled on 

 the farms. 



