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Act (34th George 3d Cap 34) the inforcing 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 sperate ownership within the
four Counties except the Scites of dwelling houses with the 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 favourite 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 derives from the gratuitous bounty
of the public. —

In the Dean's Yard Square Act already mentioned (28 Geo 2d Chap: 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.

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

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