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18 Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill.
Premises does not survive to their natural Representatives:
and as the subject matter of the Investigation grows less and less,
so would the Inducement to engage in it. The present Bill,
while for the first time it gives a value to these Interests,
provides a summary mode of procedure for establishing their
relative amount, an assistance which (it has been already
shewn) could not with any degree of Consistency be afforded by
the Legislature on any future occasion, if on the present occasion
it were to be refused.
Upon the whole therefore, the following points will it is
supposed be found sufficiently established.
1.... That the Plan itself would, in the opinion of the
Legislature, be a considerable national benefit.
2.... That the choice of the spot in Question could not upon
the whole be prejudicial to the Neighbourhood of that Spot.
3.... That on the Contrary it would be beneficial to the Neighbourhood:
4.... That, with as few and as slight exceptions (if any) as in the
case of such a Transmutation of Property can occur, it would be
beneficial to every Description of Persons, interested in point of
proprietary Right.
5... That, at the same time, under the Circumstances of the
Case, no express general consent could reasonably be to be expected.
6... But, that it is of the number of those cases, where consent
ought not to be looked upon as requisite.
7.. That such Consent, not being to be required by the
Legislature, need not be, nor ought to be, applied for ,
in the character of a condition <foreign>sine que non, on the
Part of Administration Government, by whom, if at all, the Bill will be
brought forward.
8... That the attempt to Act in all points in concurrence with two such
unwieldy Bodies as a Vestry composed of composed of 50
Members, and the Dean and Chapter who in their corporate capacity do not meet
above two or three times in a Year, would present such a prospect
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