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 other choice, unlefs it be to make appli- 

 cation to the neighbouring juflice of the 

 peace, for his order to the parifh-officera 

 to find him fome other place to lay his 

 head in. If it were not for this excel- 

 lent law, which obliges parifli-officers 

 to find habitations for their poor, I am 

 forry to remark, that in many parifhes, 

 they would be literally driven into the 

 open fields. 



There is another plan relative to cot- 

 tages, which generally anfwers extremely 

 well, and that is, to leafc them off 

 to induftrious labourers, for the term of 

 three lives, at their nomination ; taking 

 a very moderate fine, not exceeding 

 ten or twelve pounds, upon a cot- 

 tage worth about forty fhillings a year; 

 refervlng a fmall quit-rent, not exceeding 

 half-a-crown a year, and making it a 

 point to renew any life which drops off, 

 R upon 



