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count of the publick Debts at the Receipt of bis Majes Exchequer, due or standing out at Christmas 1751, with the annual Intereft or other Charges paid for the fame.

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unfubfcribed to the South Sea company Ditto for lives, with the benefit of furvivor-2 fhip, being the original fum contributed Ditto for two or three lives, being the fum 2 remaining after what is fallen in by deaths Do on the plate act 6 Geo. I. at 31. 10s. p. cent. Ditto for Nevis and St. Chriftopher's debentures, at 31. per cent. per ann. Ditto at 31. 10s. per cent. 1731 Ditto at 31. per cent. 1736, charged on the finking fund

Ditto at 1. per cent. 1738, charged on ditto Duties on falt further continued 1745 Exchequer bills made out for intereft of old bills The land tax and duties on malt, being annual grants, are not charged in this account, nor the 1,000,000l. charged on the deductions of 6d. per pound on pensions, &c. EAST-INDIA Company.

By 2 acts of parliament 9. Will. III. and 22 other acts of 6 and 9 Annæ at 31. ros. p. c. Ann. at 31. p. c. 1744, charged on the furplus of the additional duties on low wines, &c. BANK of ENGLAND.

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For cancelling Exchequer bills 3 Geo. I.

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Ditto at 31. 10s. per cent. for lottery 1747,
charged on duties on coaches, &c.
Ditto at 31. 1os. per cent. 1747, charged on
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Mewar andum. The fubfcribers of 100l. to the lottery 1745, were allowed an annuity for life of os. a ticket, which amounted to 225ool. but is now reduced by Jives fallen in to 216551. ros. And the fubfcribers to the lottery 1746, were allowed an annuity for life of 18. ticket, which amounted to 45000l. but is now reduced by lives fallen in to 426151. 115. which annuities are an increase of the national debt, but cannot be ided thereto, as no money was advanced for the fame. SOUTH-SEA Company.

On their capital stock and annuities 9 Geo. I.?
at 4 per cent. 3,662,7841. 8s. 6d. .
At 31. 10s. per cent. 21,362,5251. 53. 5d.
Annu. at per cent. 1751, on the finking fund

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1752.

Abstract of the POORS BILL.

An Abfiralt of the Bill brought in, but not paffed into a Law, during laft Seffion of Parliament, intitled, A Bill for the more L effectual Relief and Employment of the Poor.

S this bill was brought in last seffion,

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every physician and surgeon who shall attend the fame gratis, is to be deemed a governor, as alfo the parfon of the parish, if he attends the fick and instructs the poor, otherwife a chaplain to be appointed. Then as to the business of these corporations, the bill enacts, 1. That in

A and the paffing it into a law fuf- A two years, at least one hospital mall be

pended, on purpose that during the recefs,
it might be maturely confidered, and that
fuch objections might be made to it, and
fuch alterations, amendments, or additi-
ons propofed, as might render it effectu-
al for the charitable and falutary ends in-
tended, an abstract of it must not only
be useful but entertaining to all perfons,
who have any charity or publick spirit in B
their difpofition; and if any thing of im-
portance be communicated to us upon
the fubject, we shall with pleasure ren-
der it publick in our future Magazines.

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The preamble fets forth the inconveniences that have arifen from the unlimited power given by law to raise money by taxation for the relief of the poor, and C from the laws which authorize the paffing of them to their laft place of settlement; therefore the bill enacts, 1. That in every county in England and Wales, there hall be one corporation, confifting of fuch perfons, as fhall oblige themselves to pay, and fhall pay, the fums therein after mentioned, and in manner therein after directed, towards the more effectual relief and employment of the poor in every fuch county; to have perpetual fucceffion, and to be called governors of the poor; with all powers ufual for a corporation. 2. That the clerk of the peace in each County should provide a roll of parchment, with a title, purporting, that the perfons, whofe names were fubfcribed, promifed to pay to the treasurer of the faid corporation, when elected, the feveral fums fet against their names; and fhould permit all perfons to set their names thereunto, and attend for that I purpose at all feffions of the peace, or of oyer and terminer. 3. That every fubfcriber for 51. or upwards should be a member of the faid corporation: And, F

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4. That as foon as ten fuch had subscribed, they should, giving proper notice, appoint a meeting, and by ballot chufe a clerk, and also a treasurer, who, after giving fecurity, should demand and receive the fums fubfcribed; but no perfon afterwards to vote or act until he has paid 51. nor to continue a member, if he refufes to pay 51. for any fucceeding year.

There is a multitude of claufes for regulating these corporations, and the feveral officers belonging to them, viz. a clerk, a treasurer, a steward, an apothecary, a mafter of manufacture, a matron and

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erected in each county, in which shall be received the children of parents not able to maintain them, and all expofed and deferted children, not above 12 years old; all difeafed perfons not able to fup. port and provide proper remedies for themfelves; all ideots, lunaticks, lame, old, blind, and other perfons, not able to maintain themfelves by their means or labour; by a recommendation in writing from one governor at least. 2. That all the faid perfons (not being fo difeafed, aged, or impotent, but able to work in fome manner of work) should be employed in fome kind of labour, particularly in fuch trades in which they had been trained; for which purpose the hofpitals were, befides furniture, to be provided with all neceffary utenfils, materials, and other implements of work. 3. That no boy above the age of 15, nor girl above the age of 14, fhould be permitted to continue in the hospital; and that dif eafed perfons should be discharged as foon as restored to health and strength, or en

abled to maintain themselves by their labour, or as foon as the major part of the governors, at their monthly meetings, fhould order fuch discharge. 4. That all fuch poor, during their abode in the hofpital, fhould be subject to such regulations as, by the authority of the act, should be injoined. 5. That fuch as did work fhould have rewards, at the difcretion of the corporation, out of the profits of their work; and that out of fuch profits the mafter and matron fhould, befides their falaries, have fuch rewards. 6. That boys at or before the age of 15, and girls of 14, fhould by the corporation be bound apprentices for feven years, or a shorter term, to fuch as should be willing to take and keep them as apprentices; or be put to fervice upon fuch condition as the governors fhould think fit. 7. That parents or friends might, at or before that age, with the childrens confent, take them out. And, 8. That immoralities, indecencies, and idleness should be punished by whiping or abatement of diet, if children; or by abatement of diet or the flocks, if grown perfons, by order of a monthly meeting of governors, or of the steward in the intervals, if neceifary.

For erecting and endowing thefe hofpitals the bill enacts. 1. That all the

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money contributed by the governors fhould for 2 years be applied towards building the hofpitals. 2. That 3d. in the pound fhould be raised yearly for two years, by the overseers of the poor in each parish, according to the ufual method of taxation for the poors rates, and applied to the fame purpose, the furplus, if any, to be A applied towards maintaining the poor afterwards admitted. 3. That after two years 6d. in the pound fhould be afterwards yearly raised in the fame manner, and applied to the fupport of these hofpitals; and the overfeers of the poor are made fubordinate to thefe corporations, and obliged, when required, to lay their accounts before them. And, 4. That all officers and ministers of justice should be siding and affifting to thefe corporations and the officers employed by them.

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This is the general scope of the bill for to have given an abstract of all the particular claufes would have appeared tedious to most of our readers, and would have taken up more room than we could fpare.

Would you, in GRAMMAR, rise a second
PRISCIAN,

Be SHARPE your tater: He's the bes
logician,

To the AUTHOR of the LONDON
MAGAZINE.

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And lastly, as most of our prefent laws relating to the poor are by this bill to be, from and after Eafter come two years, repealed, particularly that of 43 Eliz. chap. 2. the bill enacts, 1. That the C church wardens in every parish, with four, three, or two fubftantial householders there, to be nominated yearly in Eafter week, or within one month after, by two or more juftices of peace of the fame liberty, fhould be the overfeers of the poor in that parish. 2. That these overLeers of the poor fhould in their respective D parishes, with the consent of two or more juftices of the peace, have, with respect to the poor, much the fame powers they have at prefent; and fhould collect and apply all voluntary charities, and alfo all penalties, and legacies, to the use of the poor of their respective parishes; and make up and pass their accounts yearly, and deliver the money, &c. in their hands E to the next year's overseers, within four days after their being named. 3. That the father or reputed father, grandfather, mother, grandmother and children, of every poor perfon not able to work, being of fufficient ability, should maintain fuch poor perfon, at the difcretion of the juftices. 4. That two juftices, upon complaint of the overfeers, fhould take order for the keeping of any baftard child, by charging the mother, or reputed father, or cach of them, with fo much weekly, for that purpose. 5. That if any unmarried woman be delivered of, or declare herself with child, and voluntarily fwear to the father thereof, it should be lawful for any justice of that liberty to grant G his warrant for apprehending him, and to commit him, unless he gives fecurity to appear at the next quarter sessions. And, 6. That no woman should be compelled to be examined before one month after her delivery.

SIR,

T is with great pleasure I have perused many letters in your paper, writ on national topicks; and cannot too much applaud your publick spirit, in entertain ing us with fuch differtations, whether writ by yourself, or others. Our coun trymen are luil'd in fo deep a fleep, by the Syren, LUXURY, that it requires the voice of a Stentor to awake them, and turn their eyes to their moft folid inte refts; and therefore, the louder your cries, the higher will be your merit.

But there are fubjects, widely different from the above hinted at, that also re quire your notice; among which, fuck as relate to the improvement of the polite arts, claim the next place; and, among thefe arts, that of GRAMMAR is very worthy of being confidered by you, as being the bafis of all literature.

It is well known, that the science of Grammar has exercised the pens of numberlefs writers; and is fo abftruse, complicated, and extenfive in its nature, that all the acuteness of the human mind seems neceffary, to display (as this ought to be done) the various parts of it; and efpecially, to trace its original workings, in the building up of that mighty edifice, language.

I have examined fome attempts for this noble purpose, but all with imperfect fatisfaction, till a treatife lately published fell into my hands, entitled, A DiffertaFtion upon the Origin and Structure of the Latin Tongue; containing a rational and compendious Method of learning Latin; taken from the Powers of the fervile Letters, the Uses of the Greek Digamma, and the Caufes of the Latin Tongue. By Gregory Sharpe, L. L. D. Chaplain to bis late Royal Highness Frederick Prince of Wales.

The fagacious author thus accounts for the motive of his attempting this most ufeful work, and the refult of his labour. "When I published (fays he) the first edition of the letters upon the Hebrew language, having fome remarks, that I thought were curious, or at least uncom

mon,

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Printed for R.Baldwin Jun." at the Rose in Pater Noster Row.

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