5. To secure the banks of rivers, [subject to encroachments,] and to support [endangered] buildings of any magnitude.
6. To improve low, wet, barren lands, near tide-flowing rivers, that bear up only mire and dirt, by draining on the ebb and warping on the flood-tide.
7. To draw off the foul and inflammable air from coal-pits and other mines liable to explosion.
8. To lay out new streets, nearly level, over uneven ground, with vaults under them for containing fuel, etc. for the inhabitants, and so arranged as to admit of pipes for gas, water, etc., being laid or altered without molesting the pavements.
9. To improve the hanging of venetian blinds in windows, [and to render them more manageable and useful] for keeping out the sun.
10. To prepare oatmeal for the table by a new method of drying and shelling the corn.
11. “To keep in health” by regimen.
12. To improve the making of lasts, so that the boot or shoe may comfortably fit the foot of the wearer.
13. An improved method of pulling down decayed buildings in towns, in order to rebuilding, as also of making new roads, to the honour of the British nation, the accommodation of trade, commerce, and of the public.
14. Lastly, To beautify the Church and draw man unto it, [not by mere outward architecture and adorning, however admirable,] but by appointing and supporting faithful pastors now when the current of prejudice is setting in so strongly against it!”