Notes

1 The outlines of a voluntary subscription scheme for promoting the independence of agriculture, and securing the advantage to the subscribers' families, might be delineated in this manner.

A hundred subscribers, at £100 each, form a capital to be laid out in the purchase of lands; these lands, as the leases expire, to be divided into allotments of a single plough each. All descendants of subscribers, males or married females, to be entitled, if they require it, to an allotment at a rent fixed by a jury, and on condition of residence and actual cultivation.

The produce of these rents to accumulate, and to be expended from time to time in purchasing lands to be divided in like manner.

Precedence of claims among descendants of equal propinquity to the subscribers to be determined by lots.

All allotments after 50 years' possession to be subject to claims of smaller allotments of six acres each, if any candidates disappointed of the large allotments choose to settle on so small a patrimony. A jury must in that case determine what rent is to be paid to the fund, and what to the first occupier of the allotments.

The usual subscription societies are formed to provide for widows or children an annual payment during life, or a sum of money to assist in beginning the world. The object of this one would be to provide for a long and increasing race of descendants an inheritance, if they stood in need of it, and that of the most valuable kind, being a fund on which the most salutary industry may be comfortably exercised,