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all frauds and neglects committed in their various de- 

 partments, I shall either add in the Appendix, or pub- 

 lish separately, a full account of the internal details of 

 the various trades and manufactures carried on in 

 the Military Workhouse, and copies of all the different 

 tickets, returns, tables, accounts, etc., made use of in 

 carrying on the business of this establishment. 



Though these accounts will render this work more 

 voluminous than I could have wished, yet, as such 

 details can hardly fail to be very useful to those who, 

 either upon a larger or smaller scale, m.ay engage in 

 similar undertakings, I have determined to publish them. 



To show that the regulations observed in carrying 

 on the various trades and manufactures in the Military 

 Workhouse are good, it will, I flatter myself, be quite 

 sufficient to refer to the flourishing state of the estab- 

 lishment, to its growing reputation, to its extensive 

 connections, which reach even to foreign countries, to 

 the punctuality with which all its engagements are ful- 

 filled, to its unimpeached credit, and to its growing 

 wealth. 



Notwithstanding all the disadvantages under which it 

 laboured in its infant state, the net profits arising from 

 it during the six years it has existed amount to above 

 100,000 florins, after the expenses of every kind, salaries, 

 wages, repairs, etc., have been deducted ; and the busi- 

 ness is so much increased of late, in consequence of the 

 augmentation of the demands of clothing for the troops, 

 that the amount of the orders received and executed 

 the last year did not fall much short of half a million 

 of florins. 



It may be proper to observe that not the whole army 

 of the Elector, but only the fifteen Bavarian regiments, 



