An Inquiry Into the Propriety of Applying Wastes to the Better Maintenance and Support of the Poor: With Instances of the Great Effects Which Have ... From the Parish Even in the Present Scarcity

Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Propriety of Applying Wastes to the Better Maintenance and Support of the Poor: With Instances of the Great Effects Which Have Attended Their Acquisition of Property, in Keeping Them From the Parish Even in the Present ScarcityOnly 16 have cows, 8 neither cows nor horses, and 11 less than an acre of land each. 150 souls thus established have cost the parish (by a very inflamed ac count) 241. While 110 others, the rest of the poor, burthened it 1501. In the same half year. If 110 without land cost 1501. What would 260, the total poor, have cost, if none had land?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.