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    donate Premiums thereupon ;—For enabling Parents , by the Payment of small Sums at the Birth of their Children , to provide Endowments for them at the Age of Twenty * one Years ;~* -And also , for other useful and important

    Purposes ; ± —particularly Jfor concentrating and applying the Exertions of the Liberal to the Benefit of the Indigent ' , so as to prevent the Unworthy claiming , or the Impostor abusing their Benevolence ; and thus effecting the gradual Abolition of the Poors' Ratey whilst it increases the

    Comforts of the Poor . By John Bone , Author of an " Outline of a Plan for- reducing the Poors * Rate , &c . in a Letter to the Right Hon * George Rose * M . / V—8 vo « 3 s . 6 d . Asperne * 1806 . , The Author announced his intention of publishing this work about a year ago , in a " Letter" addressed lo Mr , Rose occasioned by that gentleman's observations on the Poor Laws .

    The magnitude and importance of the Institution recommended by this work willrender it necessary for us frequently to revert to its provisions , if it should be countenanced by the public ; but as we have not been able to find a list of its Directors , arid are perfectly sure that without a very respectable body holding that situation such an Institution cannot possibly succeed , we shall be content to notice the leading features of the plan . ^ * *

    Mr . Bone builds his theory upon the presutfiptioi } that the present mode of providing for , and mana ging ' the poor , rather tends to confirm the lower classes in habits of vice and irnmo ^ ralityy than to introduce reforms arid comforts amongst them , in as much , as it makes no distinction between those vvho have lived an industrious atid oeconomical life , and those who by icile ^

    ness and profligacy have dissipated their means . To obviate this evil , he proposes that the respectable classes should support an Office , m which the labouring classes , and all other persons with small incomes , should be invited to deposit the smallest sums , from the age of 21 years until the age of 56 ^ to be then returned to them in equivalent annuities , to be continued until the end of life * He proposes that the very smallest sums might be received , in order that the very lowest classes of the people might be benefited by his plan , and that their payments should be . received as often as once a weefc / if they should think proper to pay their money so frequentl y- He argues , that ibis mode will be much preferable to that of the friendl y societies , vv hicfy occasion a great additional expense and waste of time to the people ; he might even have added , the mischi ^ fr wliick

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 435, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/43/