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[ xxii ] upon the honety and indutry of the undertaker, but would alo be liable to a total micarriage, by the intervention of death or illnes, that might happen to him.

Thee hazards would, in my opinion, be removed, or, at leat, greatly diminihed by the following plan. A general ubcription to be opened, and no ubcription to be les than 25l.

Every ubcriber of 50l. to be entitled to one copy of the work, when publihed, and alo to one copy for each other 50l. which he may chue to ubcribe. The profits ariing from the publication, to be proportionably divided among all the ubcribers in general.

A Committee of five, or more, to have the ole management and conduct of the work.

The ubcription money to be lodged in the hands of a banker, and to be drawn for, as occaion may require, by the order of the Committee.

If any peron hould wi(h to recede from the Committee, or hould, by any misfortune, be incapable of attending it; the remaining part of the Committee might elect another in his place. And as it does not eem ncceary, that every committee man hould be ubcriber (though, perhaps, the majority of them ought