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fire-places, with a view both to the economy of fuel and 

 to convenience. 



Complete kitchens will likewise be constructed, of 

 the full size, with all their utensils, as models for private 

 families. And, that these kitchens may not be useless, 

 eating-rooms may be fitted up adjoining to them, and 

 cooks engaged to furnish to gentlemen, subscribers, or 

 others to whom subscribers may delegate that right, 

 good dinners, at the prime cost of the victuals and the 

 expenses of cooking, which, together, certainly would 

 not exceed one shilling a head. 



The public kitchen from whence the poor will be 

 fed will be so constructed as to serve as a model for 

 hospitals, and for other great establishments of a similar 

 nature. 



The expense of feeding the poor will be provided 

 for by selling the portions of food delivered from the 

 public kitchen at such a price that those expenses shall 

 be just covered, and no more ; so that the establishment, 

 when once completed, will be made to support itself. 



Tickets for food (which may be considered as 

 drafts upon the public kitchen, payable at sight) will 

 be furnished to all persons who apply for them, in as 

 far as it shall be possible to supply the demands ; but 

 care will be taken to provide, first, for the poor who 

 frequent regularly the working-rooms belonging to the 

 establishment; and, secondly, to pay attention to the 

 recommendations of subscribers, by furnishing food 

 immediately, or with the least possible delay, to those 

 who come with subscribers' tickets. 



As soon as the establishment shall be completed, 

 every subscriber will be furnished gratis with tickets 

 for food, to the amount of ten per cent of his subscrip- 



