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principles upon which every sensible plan for such an 

 establishment must be founded appear to me to be 

 certain and immutable ; and, when rightly understood, 

 there can be no great difficulty in accommodating the 

 plan to all those particular circumstances under which 

 it may be carried into execution, without making any 

 essential alteration. 



CHAPTER III. 



General Direction of the Affairs of an Institution for 

 the Poor attended with no great Trottble. — Of the 

 best Method of carrying on the current Busijiess, and 

 of the great Use of printed Forms or Blanks. — 

 Of the necessary Qualif cations of those who are 

 placed at the Head of an Establishment for the Re- 

 lief of the Poor. — Great Importance of this Sub- 

 ject. — Crtcelty and Impolicy of putting the Poor 

 into the Ha7ids of Persons they cannot respect and 

 love. — The Persons pointed out who arc more im- 

 mediately called upon to come forward with Schemes 

 for the Relief of the Poor^ and to give their active 

 Assistance in carry hig thetn into Effect. 



WHATEVER the number of districts into which 

 a city is divided may be, or the number of com- 

 mittees employed in the management of a public 

 establishment for the relief of the poor, it is indispen- 

 sably necessary that all individuals who are employed 

 in the undertaking be persons of known integrity ; for 

 courage is not more necessary in the character of a 

 general than unshaken integrity in the character of a 



