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Excerpt from The Principles of Economical Philosophy, Vol. 1
Your industry and talents became especially known to me while I filled the ofiice of Secretary to the Board of Supervision in Edinburgh, when you took a very active part in forming the Combination for erecting the Easter Ross Poorhouse. I am confident that without your energy and perseverance, that Combination would not then have been formed. The views which you at that time so clearly and ably enunciated in regard to the mode of administering the Poor Laws in the Highland Districts, have been of material service to the Board of Supervision, and the example of Easter Ross has now been extensively followed, mainly in consequence of the impulse given by you. It was from a desire to give as wide a circula tion as possible to views which to them appeared sound, that the Board referred to your Correspondence in their Annual Report for 1852. The whole system was then new and untried in that part of Scotland, and stood in need of an able advocate.
As this was the first regular introduction of the Poorhouse system of relief into Scotland, as might naturally be expected.
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