from 40 sheets and upwards, to pay
at the licensing (for the whole impression) 5 pounds
Under 40 sheets 40s
Every quarto 20s
Every octavo of 10 sheets and upward 20s
Every octavo under 10 sheets, and every bound
book in 12mo 10s
Every stitched pamphlet 2s
Reprinted copies the same rates.

This tax to be paid into the Chamber of London for the space of
twenty years, would, without question, raise a fund sufficient to
build and purchase a settlement for this house.

I suppose this little tax being to be raised at so few places as the
printing-presses, or the licensers of books, and consequently the
charge but very small in gathering, might bring in about 1,500
pounds per annum for the term of twenty years, which would perform
the work to the degree following:

The house should be plain and decent (for I don't think the
ostentation of buildings necessary or suitable to works of charity),
and be built somewhere out of town for the sake of the air.

The building to cost about 1,000 pounds, or, if the revenue exceed,
to cost 2,000 pounds at most, and the salaries mean in proportion.

In the House. Per annum.
A steward 30 pounds
A purveyor 20