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to be ufed, until better methods are fubflituted in the 
place of thofe .derived from it. 
When the bills of mortality, digefted into a proper 
form, jfliall have been kept a convenient time in every 
city or confiderable town, and alfo in every hundred, 
or other proper divifion, of the country (and this I 
fhould be glad to fee done) then, and not till then, 
the hypothecs may be tried by the faCts, that will 
appear from the bills, and be confirmed or rejected 
accordingly. 
Indeed (for my own part) I am almofl perfuaded, 
from what has been above remarked, that the hv- 
pothefis will, in general, appear to be the nearer the 
truth, the more thofe bills of mortality fhall be in 
number, and the correcter they are kept. I fhall 
proceed, therefore, to mention thofe alterations, 
which, I think, may be of advantage, in the form 
of the bills of mortality, in every part of thefe king-- 
doms, over and above thofe mentioned by Mr. 
Morris, in the before -quoted pamphlet. 
i. That there be a diftinCtion made, upon the 
face of the bills of mortality, between the perfons- 
who were born in the place where fuch bills were s 
kept, and thofe that were not. This will be ef- 
fected with a very little trouble, if the fearchers of 
each parifh be inflrudted to alk the queftion of the 
friends of the deceafed, and annex the anfwer to 
their report. This precaution will facilitate many of the 
good purpofes propofed by Mr. Morris 5 and, in parti- 
cular, with regard to the fixing the values of lives, 
it will enable the perfons, who fhall apply the bills 
to calculation, to draw their conclufions only from 
the lives, that were both begun, and ended, in or 
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