A tenth part of the 310 days of labour fhall be) appropriated to the fupport of Religious inftruction, fchools, widows, poor, and other parochial exigencies, And also another tenth for other general expences of the community or state. Days. 31 } 31 This publick contribution of two tenths, or one-fifth of the Work-days in a year, fhall be equally required of all males above the age of eighteen years, and fhall be eftimated at the value 62 only of ordinary labour in cultivating the earth, amounting for each perfon, per annum, to fixtytwo days of ordinary labour. For which every male of the above defcription fhall annually fign indentures for the undermentioned portions of his labour, viz. 51 Indentures.. or 1 do. or } do. 2 Days work of ordinary labour 62 The small portions of time are neceffary to form a rateable medium for the prices I 2 of 1 of all kinds of small articles in traffick, and to afford a convenient exchange when the indentures are circulated like bills in lieu of cash; and for fuch artis cles as may require a still smaller frac tion to exprefs any gradual rifing or fall of price, the proper fraction of an hour into fixty minutes, will be fufficiently fmall for all purposes; and if any fpecies of fo fmall a value as one minute (or even as five or fifteen minutes) should be thought neceffary, fmall pieces of copper or other cheap metals, amber, or parti cular kinds of thells or beads, may be fubftitated for it. But if indentures, (for the fake of uniformity in the currency) fhould be preferred, an indenture for ten minutes, the fixth part of an hour, will amount exactly to one farthing; at the lowest price of ordinary labour, i, e. one fhilling per day. In the indentures must be expreffed the name of the township, or of the hundred, and the number, or other denomination of the tithing or dozen, wherein the figner lives; and when the indenture is cut off at the figured tally, the figner of it fhall keep the cheque in his own poffeffion, but fhall deliver the full number and value of his figned indentures into the Exchequer, in the prefence of the chief of the dozen to which he belongs. If he himself is an beadborough, or chief of a dozen, he fhall deliver his indentures in the prefence of his hundreder, or of three other beadboroughs, of the fame hundred, and the hundreder himself in the prefence of four headboroughs of his own divifion. The entry or counter-cheque in the publick treafury of every man's accompt of indentures, for which he is a debtor to little trouble to the publick, fhall be carefully examined and certified by the Hundreders, or their affiftants, or at leaft by four of the Headboroughs, of the particular division to which each debtor refpectively belongs, which will be very to each chief, as the highest will certify only for 100 families; and the regularity of the frankpledge, and the certain knowledge of each individual in a divifion, which every chief obtains by it, will effectually fecure every individual from forgeries; fo that no man will be liable to answer any demands for labour, but what may be amply proved and authenticated by comparing the cheques in his own hands with the certified entry in the Exchequer. Masters of apprentices, and also of indentured Strangers, brought by them into the fettlement, fhall be obliged to regifter the faid indentured perfons in the publick 3 publick Exchequer of the township where he lives, together with the terms of their indentures, on the penalty of 310 days labour for every wilful failure herein; and he shall be obliged to deduc from the limited time of indentured fervice, all the time that the apprentices or fervants have worked for the publick benefit. When a man has worked out, or otherwife redeemed any of the papermoney, for which he is nominally refponfible, and shall have received back the indenture, after the fervice, he may produce it at the Exchequer, together with its correfponding checque, that it may be cancelled in the publick account; whereby the discharge of publick debts may be as regularly proved and authenticated as the juft demands abovementioned; and the ftate of a man's publick debt may always be known at the |