A scheme for the better relief and employment of the poor ; humbly submitted to the consideration of His Majesty and two Houses of Parliament / By a Member of Parliament [i.e. Thomas Gilbert].

  • Gilbert, Thomas, 1720-1789.
Date:
[1764]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A scheme for the better relief and employment of the poor ; humbly submitted to the consideration of His Majesty and two Houses of Parliament / By a Member of Parliament [i.e. Thomas Gilbert]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [20], Some Annual Reward to that Dijlrict which /ball appear mojl Deferring cf it7 may excite a laudable Emulation among/I them. As an Inducement to the feveral Didricts V . to compleat their Buildings and make them fit for the Reception of the Poor within the Two Years: The’Act may direct a Sum of Money to be raifed by Lotteries within the Two Years, or in fuch other manner as (hall be thought more proper, and diftributed at the end of the Two Years amongft fuch Didricts as mall within that time have finished, com- pleated, docked and furnifhed the neceflary Buildings directed by the Act, in the Pro¬ portions which each Diftrict hath paid for their Poor on a Medium in the lad Four Years; the Accounts of the medium Sums to be tranfinitted by the Judices to the Treafury, when they have fettled them; this Money to be applied by the Treafurer of each Dis¬ trict in difeharging fo much of the Money borrowed for purchaiing the Lands and erect¬ ing the Buddings. As a further Inducement for every Didrict to comply with the Act, it may direct that a Sum of Money, not exceeding what they have annually collected for the Ufe or on account of their Poor upon a Medium for the.fed Four Years, be railed and paid by finch Didricts as fhall ref ufe to comply, into the
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