from the date of her subscription, upon due notice given, and claim
made at the office in form as shall be directed, she shall receive
within six mouths after such claim made the sum of 500 pounds in
money without any deductions, saving some small fees to the
officers, which the trustees must settle, that they may be known.

In consideration of this, every woman so subscribing obliges herself
to pay, as often as any member of the society becomes a widow, the
due proportion or share, allotted to her to pay towards the 500
pounds for the said widow, provided her share does not exceed the
sum of 5s.

No seamen's or soldiers' wives to be accepted into such a proposal
as this, on the account before mentioned, because the contingencies
of their lives are not equal to others--unless they will admit this
general exception, supposing they do not die out of the kingdom.

It might also be an exception that if the widow that claimed had
really, bona fide, left her by her husband to her own use, clear of
all debts and legacies, 2,000 pounds, she should have no claim, the
intent being to aid the poor, not add to the rich. But there lie a
great many objections against such an article, as -

1. It may tempt some to forswear themselves.

2. People will order their wills so as to defraud the exception.

One exception must be made, and that is, either very unequal matches
(as when a woman of nineteen marries an old man of seventy), or
women who have infirm husbands--I mean, known and publicly so; to