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Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill.
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 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 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 was 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 sini que
non on the part of 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 50 Members, &
the Dean and Chapter would present such a prospect of delay as
no Individual concerned in the execution of the measure could
expose himself to, especially in addition to a chain of altogether
unexpected (not to say unexampled) delays that have already
consume a period of between five and six Years.
9. That, in a case so perfectly in point as to have embraced the
same parochial district and the same parties, an Act creating
powers of the same sort, but much stronger and attended with
prodigiously greater hardship, and having much less strong (if any)
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