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The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4

CHAPTER III
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&c., worth L4 per annum_ 4 0 0 Clothing and Christmas allowance per annum 1 13 4 -- -------- 21 13 4 -- -------- Four days' or 36 hours' labor in each week, at 2s.1d.per day, or 208 days, at 2s.1d.

21 13 4 If task-work were adopted, or the day's labor prolonged to 10-1/2 or 12 hours' labor, 3 days' or 3-1/2 days' labor _would suffice_, consequently, the laborer would have 2 or 3 days in each week to work for extra wages.
In addition to the above, say pasturage for a horse, at 4s.2d.per week per annum 10 16 8 Pasturage for an ass, at 2s.1d.per week per annum 5 6 4 _Run of pasturage and fruit, for a sow, barrow, or sholt_; IF RUNG IN THE NOSE, 10_d.

per week_; IF NOT RUNG, 1_s._ 8_d.

per week; per annum, at 10d.

per week_ 2 3 4 The above charges for pasturage might be paid for either _by additional labor_ or in money, and to a good head-man they might be granted as a gratuity, and perhaps an additional acre of land allowed him to cultivate.


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