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painted, and drawn by single small horses, neatly 

 harnessed. 



As in these as well as in all other collections of 

 public charity it was necessary to arrange matters so that 

 the public might safely place the most perfect confi- 

 dence in those who were charged with these details, 

 the collections were made in a manner in which .it was 

 evidently impossible for those employed in making them 

 to defraud the poor of any part of that which their 

 charitable and more opulent fellow-citizens designed 

 for their relief. And to this circumstance principally 

 it may, I believe, be attributed that these donations 

 have for such a length of time (more than five years) 

 continued to be so considerable. 



In the collection of the soup and of the offal meat 

 at the butchers' shops, as those articles were not very 

 valuable and not easily concealed or disposed of, no 

 particular precautions were necessary, other than send- 

 ing round publicly and at a certain hour the carts des- 

 tined for those purposes. Upon that for collecting 

 the soup, which was upon four wheels, was a large 

 cask, neatly painted, with an inscription on each side 

 in large letters, " For the Poor"' That for the meat 

 held a large tub with a cover, painted with the same 

 colours, and marked on both sides with the same 

 inscription. 



Beside this tub, other smaller tubs, painted in like 

 manner, and bearing the same inscription, " For the 

 Poor" were provided and hung up in conspicuous 

 situations in all the butchers' shops in the town. In 

 doing this, two objects were had in view : first, the con- 

 venience of the butchers, that in cutting up their meat 

 they might have a convenient place to lay by that which 



