Establishments for the Poor. 369 



tion ; the value of the tickets being reckoned at what 

 the portions of food really cost, which will be delivered 

 to those who produce the tickets at the public kitchen. 

 At the end of six months, tickets to the amount of ten 

 per cent more ; and so on, at the end of every six suc- 

 ceeding months, tickets to the amount of ten per cent 

 of the sum subscribed will be delivered to each sub- 

 scriber till he shall actually have received in tickets for 

 food, or drafts upon the public kitchen, to the full 

 amount of one half of his original subscription. And 

 as the price at which this food will be charged will be, 

 at the most moderate computation, at least fifty per 

 cent cheaper than it would cost anywhere else, the 

 subscribers will in fact receive in these tickets the full 

 value of the sums they will have subscribed ; so that 

 in the end the whole advance will be repaid, and a most 

 interesting and most useful public institution will be 

 completely established without any expense to anybody. 

 And the author of these proposals will think himself 

 most amply repaid for any trouble he may have had in 

 the execution of this scheme, by the heartfelt satisfac- 

 tion he will enjoy in the reflection of having been 

 instrumental in doing essential service to mankind. 



It is hardly necessary to add, that although the sub- 

 scribers will receive in return for their subscriptions the 

 full value of them in tickets, or orders upon the public 

 kitchen for food, yet the property of the whole estab- 

 lishment, with all its appurtenances, will nevertheless 

 remain vested solely and entirely in the subscribers and 

 their lawful heirs ; and that they will have power to dis- 

 pose of it in any way they may think proper, as also to 

 give orders and directions for its future management. 



(Signed) A. B. 



LONDON, ist January, 1796. 



VOL. iv. 2 4 



