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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 Scarcity
Only 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 in¿amed 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?
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