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Act (34.Geo:3d,Ch:84) the enforcing and amendment of which is the —
object of the present Bill.—

The object of the Bill (it should all along be observed) is — not to
create de novo any such compulsive powers as those in question — not to
add any thing to the existing stock of those powers, but only to transfer,
and by transferring to mollify in effect, a set of powers of the sort in question
already created by two former Acts. The spot at Battersea which (as
well as any other Lands in separate ownership within the four Counties
except the sites of dwelling Houses with their Appurtenances) may be
taken at any time under those Acts, is a spot in relation to which the
pretium affectionis, has been found to operate (as it well might be expected to
operate) with more than ordinary force: and it is only for the purpose
of transferring the exercise of the powers in question from that favorite spot
to an ill famed and desolate spot, altogether unsusceptible of any such —
attribute as the pretium affectionis , that the present Bill is —"—
proposed. —

If there were any Class of Persons in whose instance the pretium
affectionis could in the present case be supposed to operate, it would be
that of the Paupers in the five Chimney Poor House; whose grievance —
would be the having 4 or 500 yards to move from a decayed habitation
to a new one. But surely if there be any Class of individuals whose
affections may be called upon to give way to the superior interests of the
Public, it must be that one of all others which has no other title to the
situation in question than what it derive from the Gratuitous bounty of
the Public —

In the Dean's-Yard Square Act already mentioned (28: Geo:2 Ch.54)
powers were included for pulling down a Poor House in and belonging to —
these same Parishes; though the object of that Act was nothing more than the —
building of Houses fit for the reception of Parents having Children in the —
King's School, and the Poor House there in question, was — not the present decayed
structure containing no more than 8 or 9 Inhabitants with or without Families, —
but the Principal Poor House, and that a modern built one, containing the
bulk of the parish Poor to the amount of many hundreds (a) —

About 300 private Houses were exposed by that same Act to —"—
the same fate: though, owing to a failure in the ways and means, only a few
of them eventually experienced it: as appears by a Petition presented by the
(a)The average is 500

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Box	123	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	209	Info in main headings field
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Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c8
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] propatria [britannia motif] 1795]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1795
Notes public		ID Number	41635
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