Extract of A new System, or a new order of things, delightful Dreams if ever any were! An Essay.1

Man seems to have been set upon Earth to cultivate the Plan of his Creator, to be his Second, to perfectione the produces of Nature for his necessairy maintenance & comfort. Therefore it is infered, that superfluity, unnecessairys, luxury, have never been intended to be cultivated, as being looses of time & creating propensities to many mischiefs & vices. Industry applyed to the produces of the Soil keeps to innocence, gards from ill doing. Rewarded in proportion to the labour bestowed, man is recompensed at his own will. Provided with Intilligence to direct, strangth to execute, an order of Action is necessairy with his fellow men. To do unto others as they will have the others to do unto them seems indispensable. In Studying Nature, with his Reason, he learned his dutys, towards his fellow Creatures & his due acknowledgment to his Maker. After the Industry the harmony of His worck, he saw that, all able Idlers were undeserving to be maintained at the expence of the toils of the laborious therefore with all the committer of disorder lost their freedom, were bound to worck for their full maintainance, untill corrected, or untill a new Discovery a Masterpiece made might liberate him or alleviate his suffirings, then reintegrated among his Brethern & viewed as more meritorious for having mended himself.

Liberty of dissolving conjugal union, when ill consequences are not foreseen. Childern of disorderly Perents raised up by the public. Unable pitied & maintained by others. Tallents gifts of the Creator, none to be neglected. but all even cultivated for the advantage of the Society. Reason, Philosophy, Industry, Morality, freedom, as the best Guides to arrive to the happiest state possible. All the wants restricted to utility, no luxury, no superrfluity, all usefulness; an explicit treaty made for the government of all. The first principles of medicine & Surgery thougth. No instrumental musik, but vocal cultivated for recreation. No gaming as destructive of feeling for others. No Poetry, enemy of truth & morality, except its usefull part. No navigation out of our own Territory, to keep on our own ways & manners. No trade with all the Wold, they create a conflict of interest destructive of the disinterestness, of the Morality ruling in the Republic. No relation, no communication with foreign Countrys to guard against infection & vices. No mine of precious Metals & Stones. In forbidding them all representations of fictitious value are of course forbidden. By that proscription the sources of disturbances, treachery, corruption, tyrany, luxury & demoralising are mostly at an end. Instead of a mischiefious trade, an exchange of the Productions of the Soil is substituated, one for an other & for necessairy articles for the comfort of life, all manufactured by our own people. All the usefull Metals searched & brought to all the usefulness they are susceptible.

For the above purpose & others following, a strict principle of distinction shall stand that, Where ever utility ends, luxury begins. Where advantage ends, loss begins. That to arrive to the highest state of perfection possible, concessions must be made, rather relinquish minors, for obtaining major advantages. No house of entertainment where every Brother’s house is one. If ever a foreigner appears, non will be for plundering, their property is not of easy transport, to be well supplyed, escorted & reconducted out of the Territory. No spirituous liquors, they consume produces hard acquired, applicable to better use, then much ruin, brutality, disorder presented, health, agreable comfort gained. But Wine, Cider, Bear used with reason are wholesome provoque hilarity, the two first consume no produces, raised on land not the most valuable, agree with the taste of the many, are prefered. All foreign productions prohibited. All productions of our Soil permitted under the above & following restrictions

The main Aim being to make man happy with less objets; to reduce his wants to the necessairys, all imajinairy & created wants are discarded. If tobaco is util in medicine, is it the same in dayly use? In husbandry the best methodes researched & followed, for obtaining an uniform & most usefull way of tillage, also lessening the labour & geting with less land as much as with more. Public Officers compensated with produces. No Domesticity. Childern & Apprentices to worck for their father & Master & occasionaly for their Neighbours by turn or paid in produces.2 The jung people to receive after married from their father & Master the necessairy for their sittling, to be more considerable as they did longer & more steadyly attend to their duty. Tradsmen paid of manufactured article in produce.

The Community shall own all the land, who is to divide it among the intended Settlers. To prevent an undue influence, to keep to equality, so necessairy for independence & happiness. None shall possesse more than double the land alloted equaly to every Chief of a family. even to be reduced by the will of the majority of the District.3 The permit of more than an equal share of land, to be granted for reward of industry &ra taken from those who lost their liberty from misconduct, or from vacant land, at their death to return to the State, or to become the lot of one of the Childern, as well as the primitive share for another Child. Dying without Issue to return to the Community, except it had been disposed of for a deserving friend. None has any right to dispose of his land except by exchange for a like tract. And to be approved by the administration of the District. The number of Cattles restricted to that their land can feed. All their moveable property disposable at their will. A tract of land alloted to the Gl Governmt for raising produces for their own consumption & their Attendants & for providing by exchange their necessairy Moveables.

Ways of communication all over the Community, to receive & forward weakly gratis, the new law & all kind of news. but no Dispatch, Letter &a shall be sealed, this meaning secrecy a s[nare?]4 upon confidence, is punishable

Wiewing the Society as an Association for certain interests. Its Agents ought to be selected by all its Members. the Chief of a family a full vote, his Wife & Childern each a fraction of vote, all to be modelled by the Chief. entiteled to vote only after married. A prealable Election to take place for nominating Candidates.

A Gl Government for objets of a general tendency. Each District a Gt for its own ruling. Kept constantly of a equal influence. Every District to have three Protectors, whose dutys shall be to visite a neighbouring District every six months5 to inquire into their moral, the observance of the restrictions, Industry, order, remonstrate when needed, praised when due. Take a view of their Crops & of their probable amount, of their ways of Husbandry. Whether tradsmen are wanting or too many exist & generaly about all their wants & take memorandum. To review the Institutions of high grade & the houses of correction. Then to report to their Superiors who are to provide to the wants of the individuals. Protectors are forbidden when officiating of anything on politics.

No Power of pardoning, new trial may take place. The highest punishment the loose of liberty for life, except when regenerated, freedom of Speech, but answerable6 for its veracity. Revealers of mischiefs acknowledged. Concealer punishable. Reparation & Restitution invariably observed. Crimes, mischiefs invariably punished. A good action has its worth where ever it comes from. All to be usefull, none to live on the toils of others. Ruler more punishable on account of more trust. Editor of news, a public agent paid by it, forbidden to medle with politic, they may publish the politics of others [when this is?] known & answerable. No party engrossing priviledges, but to discover the truth. Every year the Sovereign People have a right to call a Convention to reform their principles of Gt. its fondamentals are unalterable, as freedom guided by morality, Equality of right, Civil & religious rights. right of property except of land. free Press, punishment of the offenders, reward to the well doers, our Restrictions. The Year recommence with the vegetation. Every Being owes its acknowledgment to7 a supreme Dispensator, none are obligatory. No law for repos, the need of it calls for its enjoyment.

Tradsmen for our necessairys indispensable. Husbandry the most inocent pursuit highly prefered. The culture of Reason as the most powerfull Conductor. Freedom never for injuriing others. A Supreme Arbitrator a future destiny, rewarding the good & punishing the guilt. A Cult desired as a secondairy for the observance of the civil regulations. Civil & religious laws having the same tendency, the good government of Men, they are8 become united. Who ever breaks any of them offends the soverign Ruler.

Every District provided with a Judiciairy, composed of Justice of order. Arbitrators. three Justices joigning to form a second Tribunal with Jurys & a tribunal of Appeall with Jury. All the Judge shall attend on trial being but 3 or 5. a majority of them is not sufficient, the Judge abscente might throw light on the Case & bring to an other decision; for its possibility supernumerary Juges appointed, those attending only compensated.

A Tribunal composed of members of all the Districts9 shall dicide all Controversies, betwixt the Gl Government & the District Government & the Gts & the Individuals. All questions of the constituanlity of the law. All anticipation of or neglect of power, on the part of the several Government shall be restricted to due Bounds. The same for the Judiciairy Power.

The Gl Government shall make annualy an estimate of the Quantum of Produces of the Soil required for the maintenance of the Officers attending on public affaires. Regulated on a standard of tarif made yearly by them to wit. One Bushell of Wheat being worth any other quantity of other produces, & any kind of moveables. So leading to collect an assortement of produce & Goods proportioned to the use to be made of. & not bearing harder than the real value of object. Divided on all the settled inhabitants of the Districts. & delivred duly & in due time to the Collectors choosen for that purpose. New settlers or others afflicted by some misfortune to be exempted, but not the lazy & neglectful. This disability to be10 made out in weakly Meetings of each Section. This Contribution equaly divided on account of the same means to satisfy it. With those not having an article wanted to borrow it or exchange it with a Neighbour. When higher than the Share demanded, to join two or more, or the Collector to give Credit or Debit for that over or less given, to be settled even the next year. Of tradsmen when their articles not wanted, to get them from others by exchange. If one refuse to contribute, the Collector with two other men to take the contribution out of his property & rapport the case to his Superiors. So making up a Stock of keepable provisions of all the necessairys of life & transportable by turn to the Officers. Of those not keepable to be obtained by their own industry or by exchange. Nothing wasted, when more produce than needed to store it up in the public Grenairys for times of want. The Contribution to be some thing higher than wanted for replanishing the public stocks. District Legislators to make the estimate of11 provisions 6. months before the time of delivrery, the Share falling to each Officer & published over their District.

Collectors inspected by Officers selected by the Legislature. No favour or disfavour, well compensated & severely restricted. No public Contribution for minister of Cult.

Houses of correction & worck made to maintain themselves fully. for all the Criminals of the District, besides Idlers Drunkards, Unrevealers, Adultery, Bastardes, all disturbers of order & the contraveners to the principles of the Government Bearing in vue correction & not inhumain treatements.   Every one free of expatriating, provided giving due notice to the Gt, provided with provisions, but loosing its share in the Community & forbidden to return.

It is laid as a fondamental. That the Officers ought to be entrusted with such Power only that it would be dangerous for the multitude not to confide them & to be kept as tenants of the property of the people, returned to the Owners in due time unimpaired.

Exercised to the sevrals Whipons for hunting & deffencive war only.

Observations for the better menagement of rural & domestik oeconomy & other Topiks. but room wanted.