Excerpt from Some Account of the Shrewsbury House of Industry, Its Establishment and Regulations: With Hints to Those Who May Have Similar Institutions in View He has only further to add on the Subjec't', that he begs Leave to recommend it to all who propofie eretting Houses or industry, not only to procure a Plan and Efiin'tate for the Building, but to con trael: upon that Eflimate; taking proper Care to fiate every Item, together with the Quality of the Illaterialr, the Scantlings of the Timber, (dc. In the Body of the Contrae't; and to appoint a Survgor, who has the requi/ite Skill and Integrity. By this Mans thq will avoid the very firious Inconvenien ees, which in fome Infiances have ari/en from being led into an Expenditure, greatly beyond their Iuten tions, and the Amount of the Ejtimate delivered in. And he mofl earneflly recommend s it to the Directors of [tech Injiitutions, whatever may be the Merit of' their chief Oficers and Servants, always to maintain a firm, jteady, unrelaxed Superintendance and Con tronl; without which, numberle/s abu/es will imper ceptibb' creep in, and their fairefl, bed-founded Hopes and Expefia tions be infallibly defiroyed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.