7. To what extent and under what regulations are fuel, clothing, or money, distributed to such persons or their families; at all times of the year, or during any particular seasons?--As above stated, no relief of this kind is afforded to able-bodied men; their families, if considered destitute, may perhaps obtain the relief afforded by the poor-board to the poor generally, by means of portions of cheap food daily during the five winter months, and four times a week during the other part of the year. About 230,000 such portions are distributed annually, and bread to the value of about 60_l._ Fuel is distributed during the severer part of the winter, but money is rarely given, and only in extreme cases, never exceeding one mark, or about 14_d._ sterling a week, to the same party. Clothing forms no part of the relief afforded. In Lubeck these various kinds of relief are partaken of by about 850 persons annually. 8. To what extent, and under what regulations, are they relieved by their children being taken into schools, and fed, clothed, and educated, or apprenticed?--Not only are all the children of the poor admitted into the poor-schools for instruction gratis, but when relief is afforded by the poor-board, it is on the positive condition that they shall send their children to such schools. Neither food, clothing, nor any further provision is afforded them, in these schools, excepting in a very few extreme cases, in which the maintenance of very young children is undertaken by the poor-board. The number of children in our poor-schools averages about 300. (p. 415, 416.) The allowance in our poor and workhouse for every individual, is-- Daily:--1½ lb. of coarse rye bread. 2½ -- vegetables or porridge, such as potatoes, yellow peas, green peas, dried white beans, carrots, peeled barley, cabbage, &c., according to the season, and sometimes rice. 1 bottle of weak beer. Monthly:--1½ lb. of meat, and ½ lb. of butter, lard, or fat, to cook the food with. (p. 420.) Marriages among the poor are delayed by the necessity a man is under, _first_, of previously proving that he is in a regular employ, work, or profession, that will enable him to maintain a wife; and _secondly_, of becoming a burgher, and equipping himself in the uniform of the burgher guard, which, together, may cost him nearly 4_l._ (p. 419.)