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132.: Poor Relief [2] 27 JULY, 1868 - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII - Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part I November 1850 - November 1868 [1850]

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Part of: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, in 33 vols.

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132.

Poor Relief [2]

27 JULY, 1868

PD, 3rd ser., Vol. 193, cols. 1885–6. Reported in The Times, 28 July, p. 6, from which the variant is taken. In Committee on the Poor Relief Bill (see No. 119), discussion was on a Clause proposed by John Harvey Lewis to the effect that lands and buildings acquired and used under the Poor Law Acts be exempted from increased assessment

(col. 1885).

mr. j. stuart mill said, he had given Notice of a clause of similar effect, though not going so far as that proposed by the honourable Member for Marylebone (Mr. Harvey Lewis). No injustice would be done to any locality by the adoption of the clause of which he had given notice.1 Its principle was that asylums, hospitals, and other buildings, and all land used or occupied therewith for the purposes of the Metropolis Poor Act, 1867,2 should be assessed for rates upon the annual value of the site, and any buildings on it at the time of the purchase.

[The Clause was negatived (col. 1886).]

aMr. Mill next moved a clause regulating assessment on asylums, etc., used for the purposes of the Metropolis Poor Act, 1867 .

[The Clause was negatived without a division, and after two more clauses were negatived,] Mr. Mill again brought up the proposal which had been negatived in an altered form, which he contended made a new clause of it, but it was negatived without a discussion.a

[1 ]For the proposed amendment, see Notices of Motions, and Orders of the Day, 1868, p. 2007.

[2 ]30 Victoria, c. 6 (1867), Sects. 31, 32, and 55.

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