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of families in the city, and to many by myself (having 

 gone round to the doors of most of the principal 

 citizens for that purpose), was accompanied by printed 

 lists, in which the inhabitants were requested to set 

 down their names, places of abode, and the sums they 

 chose to contribute monthly for the support of the 

 establishment. These lists (translations of which are 

 also inserted in the Appendix No. II.) were delivered 

 to the heads of families with duplicates, to the end 

 that one copy being sent into the committee, the other 

 might remain with the master of the family. 



These subscriptions being perfectly voluntary might 

 be augmented or diminished at pleasure. When any 

 person chose to alter his subscription, he sent to the 

 public office for two blank subscription lists, and, fill- 

 ing them up anew with such alterations as he thought 

 proper to make, he took up his old list at the office, 

 and deposited the new one in its stead. 



The subscription lists being all collected, they were 

 sorted and regularly entered according to the numbers 

 of the houses of the subscribers, in sixteen general 

 lists,* answering to the sixteen subdivisions or districts 

 of the city ; and a copy of the general list of each dis- 

 trict was given to the commissary of the district. 



These copies, which were properly authenticated, 

 served for the direction of the commissary in collect- 

 ing the subscriptions in his district, which was done 

 regularly the last Sunday morning of every month. 



The amount of the collection was immediately 

 delivered by the commissary into the hands of the 

 banker of the institution, for which he received two 



* Upon a new division of the town, when the suburbs were included, the 

 number of subdivisions {abtheilnngs) were augmented to twenty-three. 



