Another section of the 1806 Philadelphia YM discipline (the table
below will look most coherent on a monospace screen):
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                              STOCK

     AGREED, that there be collections brought in from each
quarterly, unto the next yearly meeting, for a yearly meeting
stock, to defray the charges of the said meeting, according to
the several agreements made or hereafter to be made. 1695
     A stock having been generally kept, and by experience found
useful, for the necessary occasions of the society, it is agreed,
that the same be occasionally renewed by a collection from each
quarter and that it be continued in the hands of the treasurer
appointed by this meeting, and subject to be drawn out by its
direction or by the meeting for sufferings, as the exigencies of
society may require.
     The sums which may be thought necessary, shall be raised by
each quarter, in the proportions which may be ascertained by this
meeting from time to time.
     An arrangement of the quotas of the several quarterly meet-
ings produced by a committee appointed for that purpose was
agreed to in 1804 as follows:

Quotas:
                                   L.   s.             L.
Philadelphia quarter to pay        16    0   in every  100
Abington . . . . . .    do . . . . 10    0
Bucks  . . . . . . .    do . . . . 10    0
Concord  . . . . . .    do . . . . 11   10
Caln . . . . . . . .    do . . . .  7    0
Western  . . . . . .    do . . . . 10   10
Southern . . . . . .    do . . . .  4    0
Burlington . . . . .    do . . . . 10   10
Haddonfield  . . . .    do . . . .  8   10
Salem  . . . . . . .    do . . . .  7    0
Shrewsbury and Rahway   do . . . .  5    0
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                               L. 100
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Licia Kuenning
Friends of Truth/Glenside Friends Meeting/Quaker Heritage Press