In the hospital, more or less (according to the number of people
entertained), a housekeeper, a steward, nurses, a porter, and a
chaplain.

For the support of this office, and that the deposit money might go
to none but the persons and uses for whom it is paid, and that it
might not be said officers and salaries was the chief end of the
undertaking (as in many a project it has been), I propose that the
manager or undertaker, whom I mentioned before, be the secretary,
who shall have a clerk allowed him, whose business it shall be to
keep the register, take the entries, and give out the tickets
(sealed by the governors and signed by himself), and to enter always
the payment of quarterage of every subscriber. And that there may
be no fraud or connivance, and too great trust be not reposed in the
said secretary, every subscriber who brings his quarterage is to put
it into a great chest, locked up with eleven locks, every member of
the committee to keep a key, so that it cannot be opened but in the
presence of them all; and every time a subscriber pays his
quarterage, the secretary shall give him a sealed ticket thus
[Christmas 96] which shall be allowed as the receipt of quarterage
for that quarter.

Note.--The reason why every subscriber shall take a receipt or
ticket for his quarterage is because this must be the standing law
of the office--that if any subscribers fail to pay their quarterage,
they shall never claim after it until double so much be paid, nor
not at all that quarter, whatever befalls them.

The secretary should be allowed to have 2d. for every ticket of