publick Exchequer of the township where he lives, together with the terms of their indentures, on the penalty of 310 days labour for every wilful failure herein; and he fhall be obliged to deduct from the limited time of indentured fervice, all the time that the apprentices or fervants have worked for the publick benefit. When a man has worked out, or otherwife redeemed any of the papermoney, for which he is nominally refponfible, and shall have received back the indenture, after the fervice, he may produce it at the Exchequer, together with its corresponding checque, that it may be cancelled in the publick account; whereby the discharge of publick debts may be as regularly proved and authenticated as the juft demands abovementioned; and the ftate of a man's publick debt may always be known at the the publick Exchequer by the balance of indentures in his accompt; and thereby all frauds and impofitions may be easily traced and detected. As Labour in all new fettlements where land is cheap, is, of course, much higher and more valuable than in old established ftates, the intrinsick value of the labour, in the proposed new fettlement, might fairly be estimated at double the price of labour in England; but at prefent I will rate it only at one fhilling per day, on account of the limitation of eight hours instead of ten, commonly required in England. About 300 males have already entered their names; which number multiplied by fixty-two, the tax of days work due from each per annum, by this regulation, will produce 18,600 days of labour in a year, due to the publick; which, estimated at the low average rate of only is. per day, will amount to 9301, per per annum. And as the value or expence of labour, when applied to land, (at the ordinary estimation of increase by the products of the earth in return for labour and care) is expected to produce at least triple the amount of the difbursement, even in our northern climates, fo the value of 930l. bestowed in labour on the publick lots of land in the fertile and productive climate of Africa, where very little labour is neceffary, might certainly be eftimated much higher but even at the ordinary rate it will amount to 2790l. per annum, which is a very great publick revenue, if it be remembered that it is calculated on the very small number of 300 males, reckoning rich and poor together, which are only the ordinary average number of males in an hundred divifion, or 100 families of a well established fettlement, at the rate of three males to a family! The general contribution, which I have propofed, is equally laid on the poor as on the rich, the former being équally capable of paying it, and that certainly with more cafe to themselves, by being accustomed to ordinary labour. Nevertheless the rich (it may be faid) ought to contribute more than the poor, on account of the fuperior advantages which accrue to them by their affociation with the poor in one well regulated political body. The superior advantages I speak of are-ft, The perfonal ease or exemption from labour, which their riches may always procure to them in such a society and fecondly the effectual fecurity of their property, or wealth, procured in Frankpledge, or " Maxima fecuritas," by the equal exertion of perfons, who have no property, and by an equal risque, also of their lives, in case of actual danger. So that it seems clearly reasonable and juft, that the rich |