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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 scites 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 excercise 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 —
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