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if he died, he was decently buried. After his death, 

 the commissary assisted at the inventory which was 

 taken of his effects, a copy of which inventory was 

 delivered over to the committee. These effects were 

 afterwards sold ; and after deducting the amount of the 

 different sums received in alms from the institution by 

 the deceased during his lifetime, and the amount of 

 the expenses of his illness and funeral, the remainder, 

 if any, was delivered over to his lawful heirs ; but when 

 these effects were insufficient for those purposes, or 

 when no effects were to be found, the surplus in the 

 one case, and the whole of these expenses in the other, 

 was borne by the funds of the institution. 



These funds were derived from the following sources, 

 viz. : 



First, from stated monthly allowances, from the 

 sovereign out of his private purse, from the states, 

 and from the treasury or chamber of finances ; 



Secondly, and principally, from the voluntary sub- 

 scription of the inhabitants; 



Thirdly, from legacies left to the institution ; and 



Fourthly, from several small revenues arising from 

 certain tolls, fines, etc., which were appropriated to 

 that use.* 



Several other and some of them very considerable 

 public funds, originally designed by their founders for 

 the relief of the poor, might have been taken and 

 appropriated to this purpose ; but, as some of these 

 foundations had been misapplied, and others nearly 

 ruined by bad management, it would have been a very 

 disagreeable task to wrest them out of the hands of 



* The annual amount of these various receipts may be seen in the accounts 

 published in the Appendix. (See page 524.) 



