Minutes of proceedings relative to a proposal for establishing a lunatick asylum in the vicinity of Oxford ... under the ... direction of the governors of the Radcliffe Infirmary.

Date:
1814
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Credit: Minutes of proceedings relative to a proposal for establishing a lunatick asylum in the vicinity of Oxford ... under the ... direction of the governors of the Radcliffe Infirmary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    tary contribution, or so intended to be built and established, it shall be lawful for the Justices so as- sembled to appoint a committee (as is before di- rected in their treating with other counties) to treat with and enter into and subscribe an agreement with a committee of Governors, Directors, or Sub- scribers to such voluntary institution ; and all pro- visions herein before directed in regard to counties treating and agreeing with each other shall be ad- hered to, and be effectual, as far as the same will apply, or as the different circumstances of the twro cases will admit; and the number of the committee of Governors, Directors, and Subscribers shall not exceed the number of the committee of Justices, &c. &c.” And by another clause (§. 8.) in the said act it is provided, certainly in view to ease and relieve the burden on occupiers of land, and other contributors to the county rate, “ that when it shall appear to the said Justices that the charge and costs of carrying this act into execution shall exceed one half of the amount of the ordinary annual assessment for the County rate, (such ordinary assessment to be taken on a mean proportion of the said rate for the last five years preceding,) then and in such case it shall and may be lawful for the said Justices to take up money on mortgage of the said rates at legal or lower interest as to them, or the major part of them,
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