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as will amount to a compleat lot. And every indentured European, above the age of twenty-one, shall be allowed gratis, half a lot of land adjoining to his mafter's out lot; and as foon as the limited demand of labour, due to his mafter, shall be faithfully discharged, either by service or by redemption, he fhall be allowed to purchase half a lot more for two years fervice (with reafonable credit or allowance of time to perform it in) to the Exchequer or publick bank and fhall be admitted to all the civil rights of a deciner, as foon as the ftipulated fervice is faithfully dif charged or fooner, if the Hundred Court hall be fatisfied that he is worthy.

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PUBLICK REVENUE AND PAPER CUR RENCY OF INTRINSIC VALUE.

Tax on Days Work required from all Males above eighteen Years of Age.-Number of Indentures to be given by every Male.-Indentures bow to be certified.-Every Man to bave an Accompt of Labour open at the Exchequer, certified by the proper Officers of bis Divifion-Apprentices and indentured Servants to be registered.-Publick Labour to be deducted from the Terms of all Indentured Servants.-Accompts of Labour how to be fettled and difcharged.-Eftimation of Labour. Additional Tax on the Rich, and on those who have more profitable Employments than ordinary Labour.-The Payment of Tithes of Property always grievous and inconvenient. Tax on Pride and Indolence.The Advantages of making Ordinary Labour the Medium of Traffic.-That poor Men will never want Employment, nor lofe Time in Searching for it.-Will obtain credit for Neceffaries,

ceffaries, and for the Affiftance of Artificers. -Indentures how to be certified, entered, and put in Circulation.—Indentures will be ready Cafh to the Merchants, Tradefmen, or Artificer, and will enable them to redeem their own more valuable Labour, and to draw on the Bank for Paper Cash to circulate, or for Labour to accommodate Planters, who will repay in Produce; that the Indentures will be really as intrinfically valuable as ready Cufh. -The Author's Doubts. A few Objections removed.-Debts of Labour to be demanded only by the publick Banks.-Applications either for Labourers or Labour to be made at the publick Banks.-Planters to pay a small Commiffion per Cent. to the Bank for supplying Labourers.-Labourers to be fummoned in due Rotation fome every Day, with due previous Notice, according to the Dates of their Indentnres not balanced.-Guard against Bankruptcy, and against Oppreffion of indentured Labourers.-In cafe of Death, Debts of Labour due to the Exchequer to be made good out of the real and personal Estate of the Debtor.-The System of Frankpledge

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the chief Security of this Revenue.-Publick Fines and Forfeitures.-The peculiar Improvement which even Frankpledge will obtain by Fines of Labour.-Even Neglect of publick Labour may be turned to the publick Advantage.—The Revenue of Fines referved to make up all Deficiencies in this Calculation as it would probably amount to a Third of what is already reckoned, and the Profits of the Sale of Land probably even more than the Fines.-The Savings by this Arrangement would be almost as extraordinary as the Gains.

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lick revenue, and at the fame time to render industry and honeft daily labour honourable, or at least creditable by being general.—All contributions to the state, and all publick fines, (except those laid on perfons convicted of felony within the fettlement, which are to be worked out in the penitentiary lets, before defcribed) fhall be levied in day labour, estimated

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estimated (whatever a man's calling, art, or ability may be) at the rate of eight hours work per day of an ordinary labourer; fo that persons who have money, or more valuable employments, may compound, or find a fufficient fubftitute accustomed to ordinary labour: but the fubftitute must be a free man; becaufe no flave, nor even an apprentice or indentured fervant, if bound for a longer term than what is limited under the general head of freedom, fhall be perrnitted to work within the bounds of the fettlement, left any difcredit fhould thereby be thrown on honeft labour. And for the fame reason the fines of days work laid on perfons convicted of felony, within the fettlement, fhall not be entered on the fame books of the Exchequer which contain the names of the reft of the community, but thall be registered in a diftinét book, as a separate I branch

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