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it into execution) will encourage others, who do not put 

 down their names upon the lists of the subscribers at 

 first, to follow with subscriptions for the purpose of 

 augmenting the establishment, and rendering it more 

 extensively useful. 



Should this be the case, it is possible that in a short 

 time subordinate public kitchens, with rooms adjoining 

 them for the accommodation of the industrious poor, 

 may be established in all the parishes ; and, when this is 

 done, only one short step more will be necessary in 

 order to complete the design, and introduce a perfect 

 system in the management of the poor. Poor-rates 

 may then be entirely abolished, and voluntary subscrip- 

 tions, which certainly need never amount to one half 

 what the poor-rates now are, may be substituted in the 

 room of them, and one general establishment may be 

 formed for the relief and support of the poor in this 

 capital. 



It will, however, be remembered that it is by no 

 means the intention of the author of these proposals 

 that those who contribute to the object immediately 

 in view, the forming a model for an establishment for 

 feeding and giving employment to the poor, should be 

 troubled with any future solicitations on that score. 

 Very far from it : measures will be so taken, by limiting 

 the extent of the undertaking to the amount of the sums 

 subscribed, and by arranging matters so that the estab- 

 lishment, once formed, shall, be able to support itself, 

 that no further assistance from the subscribers will be 

 necessary. If any of them should, of their accord, follow 

 up their subscriptions by other donations, these addi- 

 tional sums will be thankfully received, and faithfully 

 applied to the general or particular purposes for which 



