The folLOWANCES for the whole ablished. Worth per Ann. And the or fix Hun * *In double that it will furely be worth more than what I conNAL LABOUR; but I have added on the whole Labour. It is alfa registered Lement is in actual Poffeffion of a themselves thefe hired Ministers shall exert conducive fr Work, wherein they may be ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS. Propofed for the intended New Settlement of SIERRA LEONA. As it will be expedient for the welfare of the new Settlement, that at least four perfons of liberal edu cation should be employed in each hundred families, to regifter eftates as well as judicial determinations, and keep an exact account of all public debts, receipts and expenditures, in the books of each hundred; being alfo fuch perfons, as may be capable of readily acquiring by ftudy, some general knowledge of the common law of England, that they may be prepared, on all occafions, to give proper information and advice to the hundreders, headboroughs, and others who N probably probably may not have had the opportu nity of acquiring that kind of knowledge it is proposed, that fufficient falaries in days work thall be paid to all perfons fo employed in the publick fervice and that they may not hold thefe offices of profit on a precarious or base tenure, it is alfo propofed that they shall be elected to hold their respective offices on the fame terms, as law officers in England; viz. " quamdiu fe bene gefferint"-" as long as they fhall behave themselves well:" that is, until they are actually convicted by due process of "the law," of fome notorious malverfation or dishonefty, whereby they incur a legal incapacity for their offices by ceafing to be "good and true men. "Boni etlegales homines."And yet, as it might be dangerous to the new Settlement to permit men to hold offices of confiderable profit without annual reelection, if they were permitted at the fame " fame time to obtain and hold offices of power, it is, therefore, propofed, (from the example of the common law of England) that the officers of magifterial power and command over the militia, as Sheriffs, heads of thousands, hundreders or headboroughs, and their refpective deputies or affiftants, shall not be allowed any falaries; nor be elected into any offices to which falaries are annexed, unless they fhall confent to give up their offices of power and command; and on the sother hand, that no perfons holding offices with falaries, fhall accept any office of power or command in the militia without vacating and yielding up the former office of profit, There ought to be fix officers in each bundred, to whofe employments falaries must neceffarily be annexed, viz. |