glebe of 200 acres, laid out altogether, close on the outfide of the private out lots of the other fettlers; and whilst he has the charge of the whole fettlement, he hall receive from the parochial tenth of labour in each 100 families, (provided he has no falary from the treasury of England) 250 days work, which will amount from 6 hundreds (supposing so many to be established) to 1500 days. work per annum. This estimated at 2s. per day, amounts ro 1 5ol. per annum, which, laid out on the glebe land, will probably amount to 450l. per annum, When other clergymen can be procured, in case the settlement fhould fucceed, each future clergyman shall be appointed to the care of one fingle hundred families, with the allowance of 1000 days work per annum, worth 100l. befides a glebe of one hundred acres; the produce of which by that labour will be worth at leaft 300l. per annum; and alfo one private

private lot of land of the ordinary fize befides, for his family inheritance. In which cafe the allowance of 250 days from that hundred, fo provided with a feparate clergyman, fhall no longer be paid to the first clergyman, whofe falary fhall be made good by a proportional allowance from the other hundreds; as for inftance. When his cure fhall be in this manner reduced to 5 hundreds, they fhall each allow him 300 days labour. When reduced to 4 hundreds, they fhall allow 375 days labour. And when to 3 hundreds, they fhall each contribute 500 days labour, viz. 1500 days in all; probably worth, when applied to his glebe land, as before remarked, at least 450l. per annum; which, with his allowance from the fociety for propagating the gofpel, will certainly be an ample compenfation for his utmost exertions in inftructing the people: efpecially in a country where no taxes are paid, ex

cept

cept a tax on labour, which ought not to be demanded of any clergyman.

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That as foon as 15 hundreds are duly formed, with their respective chaplains, the common council of the whole 15 hundreds fhall elect 2 clergymen of the most unexceptionable and unblameable characters, as candidates for epifcopacy, who shall be sent over to England with a request to the archbishops and bishops of England, that in cafe both candidates are deemed equally unexceptionable, thebishops will be pleafed to decide by lot, (according to apoftolic example,) which of the candidates shall be confecrated bishop of the 15 bundreds, containing about 9000

fouls.

That no clergyman who receives a falary as fuch within the bounds of the fettlement, fhall enter into trade, or any other fecular pecuniary employment,

farther

farther than the barter which may be neceffary in the difpofal of the produce from his own land and glebe; or from any fhare or shares of the common land, held of the state to be cultivated, under the direction of the public Bank, or Exchequer; but in confideration of this reftriction, he shall not be liable to any tax for labour, or for watch and ward, and yet fhall enjoy a vote or voice with the other masters of families in the Court of the Hundred in which he is affociated,

and alfo in the common council of the fettlement.

That the town clerk of each hundred families be allowed a falary of 800 days work, which, estimated at 2s. per day, amounts to 80l. per annum; and the produce of it from their lot of office, at leaft to 2401. per annum.

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And

And that Mr. the town clerk of the first hundred, or principal fettlement, fhall have also an additional allowance of 400 days work, as long as he is continued in the office of clerk of the first bundred, viz. 50 days work from each hundred, or in fuch proportion from each hundred that his additional allowance fhall not exceed 400 days work, making, upon the whole, an allowance of 1200 days work (worth 120l. cafh, which, laid out on his land, will produce 360l. per annum) for the extraordinary care and attendance which his office will neceffarily require, by having a registry kept therein of all lots of land, and also of all the indents for labour iffued from each hundred throughout the whole fettlement; and for his affiftance therein, he fhould be allowed at least 2 additional affiftants, to be elected by the common. council of the fettlement, with the fame falaries as the other affiftants, viz. 500 Р

days