End to Usury at Munich. 505 



The great number of persons who have availed them- 

 selves of the advantages held out to them by this estab- 

 lishment, and who still continue to avail themselves of 

 them, shows how effectual the establishment has been 

 to remedy the evil it was designed to eradicate. 



The number of persons who apply to this chest for 

 assistance each month is at a medium from 300 to 

 400, and the sums actually in advance amount in 

 general to above 20,000 florins. 



As no money is advanced from this chest but upon 

 government securities, that is to say, upon receipts for 

 salaries and pensions, there is no risk attending the 

 operation ; and, as the interest arising from the money 

 advanced is more than sufficient to defray the expense 

 of carrying on the business, there is no loss whatever 

 attending it. 



An Account of a Scheme for employing the Soldiery 

 in Bavaria in repairing the Highways and Public 

 Roads. 



I HAD formed a plan which, if it had been executed, 

 would have rendered the military posts or patrols 

 of cavalry established in all parts of the Elector's domin- 

 ions much more interesting and more useful.* I wished 

 to have employed the soldiery exclusively in the repairs 

 of all the highways in the country, and to have united 

 this undertaking with the establishment of permanent 

 military stations on all the high roads for the preserva- 

 tion of order and public tranquillity. 



* A particular account of these military posts is given in the second Chap- 

 ter of the Essay on Public Establishments for the Poor. See page 293 and 

 following. 





