k Journey-Work, or for themselves, and
their Land and Houses should be the Inheritance of them and their Heirs
for ever; paying a small Rent or Fine to the Government for it, besides
the Quit-Rent, out of which Rent and the Produce of their every other
Day's Labour might be allowed a sufficient Salary for Centurions or
Persons to inspect into and direct the Work and Behaviour of these
Servants; and the Overplus certainly would not only pay the Money at
first advanced, but would likewise in a few Years bring in a very great
Income.

But if the Government should decline undertaking this in general, yet
might particular Companies take up Land and advance Money as above
specified, which would in all Probability in a small Time tend to their
great Profit; by carrying on to the best Advantage, in the cheapest way,
their several Manufactures and Arts, imploying therein such unfortunate
poor Persons as are expert in their respective Trades or Callings.

How many honest ingenious People might thus get Work, Maintenance, and
even Estates for themselves and Families, who now lie obscured in
Idleness, and almost devoured by Poverty?

In the next Place, as for Vagrants and Beggars, suppose that all such
Persons that are taken wandering above five Miles from their own Parish
(or less upon Occasion) without a _Pass_ from the Minister and
Church-Wardens, specifying their Business, with Leave for a certain
Time, or without being able to give a good Account of themselves and
their present Imployment; should be put immediately by any House-Keeper
into the Custody of a Constable, who should be obliged to carry them
before the next Justice of the Peace to be examined, and committed to
the next _Bridewell_ or Prison, there to work, till at the next
Quarter-Sessions they be ordered for Transportation, except Infants,
aged and disabled Persons, who should be sent Home to, and maintained by
their own Parishes, if discoverable, or else at the County Charge. These
should serve seven Years for their Maintenance without Wages, with
somewhat less Perquisites and Privileges than those above-mentioned in
all Respects, both during their Service and afterwards; however
sufficient Provision should be made for them, though not so good as for
those others.

In this Class should likewise be included all petty Criminals and
_Bridewell_ Birds, all which should be transported at the Expence of the
County to which they belong, as also should all Convicts an