195.  Qu.  Whether much may not be expected from a biennial consultation of so many wise men about the public good?

196.  Qu.  Whether a tax upon dirt would not be one way of encouraging industry?

197.  Qu.  Whether it may not be right to appoint censors in every parish to observe and make returns of the idle hands?

198.  Qu.  Whether a register or history of the idleness and industry of a people would be an useless thing?

199.  Qu.  Whether we are apprized, of all the uses that may be made of political arithmetic?

200.  Qu.  Whether it would be a great hardship if every parish were obliged to find work for their poor?

201.  Qu.  Whether children especially should not be inured to labour betimes?

202.  Qu.  Whether there should not be erected, in each province, an hospital for orphans and foundlings, at the expense of old bachelors?

203.  Qu.  Whether it be true that in the Dutch workhouses things are so managed that a child four years old may earn its own livelihood?

204.  Qu.  What a folly is it to build fine houses, or establish lucrative posts and large incomes, under the notion of providing for the poor?

205.  Qu.  Whether the poor, grown up and in health, need any other provision but their own industry, under public inspection?

206.  Qu.  Whether the poor-tax in England hath lessened or increased the number of the poor?

207.  Qu.  Why the workhouse in Dublin, with so good an endowment, should yet be of so little use? and whether this may not be owing to that very endowment?

208.  Qu.  Whether that income might not, by this time, have gone through the whole kingdom, and erected a dozen workhouses in every county?

209.  Qu.  Whether workhouses should not be made at the least expense, with clay floors, and walls of rough stone, without plastering, ceiling, or glazing?

210.  Qu.  Whether the tax on chairs or hackney coaches be not paid, rather by the country gentlemen, than the citizens of Dublin?

211.  Qu.  Whether it be an impossible attempt to set our people at work, or whether industry be a habit which, like other habits, may by time and skill be introduced among any people?

212.  Qu.  Whether all manner of means should not be employed to possess the nation in general with an aversion and contempt for idleness and all idle folk?

213.  Qu.  Whether it would be a hardship on people destitute of all things, if the public furnished them with necessaries which they should be obliged to earn by their labour?

214.  Qu.  Whether other nations have not found great benefit from the use of slaves in repairing high roads, making rivers navigable, draining bogs, erecting public buildings, bridges, and manufactures?

215.  Qu.  Whether temporary servitude would not be the best cure for idleness and beggary?

216.  Qu.  Whether the public hath not a right to employ those who cannot or who will not find employment for themselves?