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it would serve all such future Candidates as a basis
to refer to & to bid upon. When the establishment is
accomplished, the publishd asort of little history of it
would have its use: & to such a History these accots
would form an Appendix. To such a History the
Novelty of the establishmts may naturally be expected
to draw some attention: & under such Circumstances
peculation must be very hardy if it looks upon
itself as secure.
2d If this be thought not suffict, let him have
also the previous assurance that the work will be resurveyed,
& that not by any Surveyor known beforehand,
but by some one or two taken by lot from the whole
body of the profession, & that not till immediately before
the Survey is to be made.
On this plan there seems to be a real advantage
in havg a man over from England. An Irish
Architect has his Connections ready formed
with workmen: & it may happen that among
those connections there may be some intimate
enough to admitt of Collusion. Such Connects a
Stranger, how well dispos'd sooner to peculate,
would not find it quite so easy to form, nor prudent
to Attempt to form, on first setting his foot in the
Country.
Upon he whole the sevl courses capable of
being taken in this respect to stand in point of
eligibility in the followd Order.
1. To get an English Architect, if a good one
an be got, to go over & do the Buss for a fixed reward:
engaging the workg builders, not on his own Account,
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