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<HEAD>A &s;ea&s;onble Propo&s;al for the Benefite and Ad|vantage of <HI>Women-Servants.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THO Projects of this Nature at fir&s;t view are generally &s;lighted, yet if it be con&s;ide|red deliberatly, how much the&s;e Servants are expo&s;ed in an ignominious manner, when through Age, Sickne&s;s, or Accidents, they are rendered incapable to &s;erve; It will be found to have its due weight, &s;eing it tends not only to prevent the Abu&s;es that are committed by &s;uch rigid dealing with Servants, who without their own fault are di&s;abled from working, but al&s;o will prove a great Encouragement to Servants to be more faith|ful and u&s;eful in their Service.</P>
<P>It mu&s;t be a melancholy Pro&s;pect, and di&s;couraging for Servants to con&s;ider, that by rea&s;on of the &s;malne&s;s of their Fees, they cannot in many years put as much to the fore as will maintain them one Month in Sickne&s;s, and in ca&s;e any Accident befall them, they fore&s;ee them&s;elves to be undone, which tempts many of them to take unlawful Means to prevent the&s;e fore&s;een evils to the prejudice of their own Soul, and of the intere&s;t of tho&s;e they &s;erve.</P>
<P>And therefore it is unque&s;tionably a Duty that proper Methods be fallen upon to re|medy this Evil; In order to which, a very &s;mall part of Servants Fees, not exceeding Twelve pennies of each pound <HI>Scots,</HI> ought to be collected to begin a Fund for erecting an <HI>Ho&s;pital</HI> for maintaining &s;uch Servants, as through Age, Sickne&s;s, Infirmity, or other Accidents are rendred uncapable to &s;erve; And it's certain there is no Servant will grudge at this &s;mall Proportion, when they know it is to be applyed only to the u&s;e fore&s;aid, &s;o much for their Advantage and Encouragement: Neither can it be unea&s;ie or burden|&s;ome, the Proportion being &s;o &s;mall.</P>
<P>The Advantages that will attend this Undertaking are, 1. It will ea&s;e the Place of a Burden that is otherways more than &s;ufficiently burdened already. 2. It will encourage Servants to be dutiful and hone&s;t when they fore&s;ee a Remedy provided for them in ca&s;e of di&s;tre&s;s. 3. It will provoke others to go in to the Example. 4. It will prevent the Uncharitable and Inhumane Ejection of Servants when in di&s;tre&s;s. 5. When any Servant is advanced to a better Station, &s;he may be provoked to a charitable Contribution for &s;uch a good Work in favours of tho&s;e that are in the Station &s;he once was in. 6. The Ho&s;pi|tal may be under &s;uch a Government as may help to take care of the Souls as well as the Bodies of &s;uch as come into it, and &s;o prevent the unlawful Means that many take &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n their Misfortune.</P>
<P>Some will alledge that &s;uch &s;mall In-comes will never make a Fund &s;uitable to the De|&s;ign, and the collecting thereof w<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">ll be difficult.</P>
<P>To which it may be an&s;wered 1. That many Smalls make a Great. 2. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">perience &s;hews that &s;maller Contributions has produced Funds effectual for <UNCLEAR>&s;uch</UNCLEAR> De&s;igns, &s;uch as the Contribution of &s;ingle Senti<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">els to their Invalides, Sea-men Serva<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">ts to their Poor, <HI>viz.</HI> 8 Pennies <HI>per</HI> pound of their Wages each Voyage Journeymen in I<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">corporations, Carters, Porters, Trone-men, yea even L<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">nk-boyes in <HI>Edinburgh</HI> have &s;uch <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">egular Contributions in favours of the Poor of their <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">wn Societies, and the condition of Women &s;ervants is much better than &s;everal of the&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> forementioned, and their Numbers va&s;tly above any of them. 3. There may be other funds be&s;ides their Fees, out of which the&s;e Contributions may be made, &s;uch as a part of the legal Pains impo&s;ed by Law again&s;t Profanene&s;s and Immoralities of Servants, and many People may be induced to give con&s;iderable Con|tributions to &s;uch a charitable Work, from a plain Sen&s;e of the charitablene&s;s and u&s;e|fulne&s;s of the De&s;ign. And La&s;tly, there will be no difficulty in collecting, &s;eing Ma|&s;ters will readily and cheerfully advance the Proportion from the plain Advantage and Pro&s;pect they will reap by the de&s;igned Project at any time after the Fee falls due, and the Collector may in a &s;horter time, and with le&s;s Trouble gather in the whole, than many of the &s;mall Branches of the Towns Revenues are collected; con&s;idering, that it will take no great Time or Pains for the Collector or The&s;aurer to vi&s;ite all the Families within the City &s;ometime after <HI>Whit&s;unday</HI> and <HI>Martinma&s;s,</HI> and take up the Names of all the Servants, and tho&s;e the<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;erve, with the Quantity of their termly Fees, and book the &s;ame, which will clear the <HI>Quota</HI> of the <HI>Contribution</HI> to be collected.</P>
<P>As to the Government of the &s;aid Ho&s;pital within the City of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> it may be lod|ged in Eleven or Thir<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters">en Per&s;ons cho&s;en out of Ma&s;ters of Families, Mini&s;ters and Town-Council, <HI>viz.</HI> 9 Ma&s;ters &amp; Families, one Mini&s;ter to be cho&s;en out of the general Meetings of the Se&s;&s;ions, and one of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">he Town Council to be cho&s;en by their Council, with a The&s;au|rer or Ca&s;h-keeper and Collec<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">or, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> be&s;ides the fore&s;aid Eleven, the <HI>Quorum</HI> declared to be 5 or 7, and this Nomi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">ation is to be renewed annually, with Power to them to choo&s;e their own <HI>Pre&s;es,</HI> or any o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">her more effectual way of Management may be con&s;ide|red upon by the Magi&s;trats, and eight Se&s;&s;ions in ca&s;e the Project take.</P>
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