Annual report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland : 25th 1883

  • Great Britain. General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland.
Date:
1883
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Credit: Annual report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland : 25th 1883. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    x plans can be taken as a minute approving of the scheme under which the parochial board, at the risk of the ratepayers, were to enter upon farming _ Action of operations. But I do not know that it is necessary to go very far into that, Declarator and In point of fact, assuming that all that has been done has been done within the Interdict, ae powers of the Barony Parochial Board,—and I do not wish to suggest that . avything has been ultra vires,—I do not think that their doing it is sufficient to authorise the assessor to value all these buildings as one. So far as I am concerned, I think that the doctrine of wnum quid must not be carried too far. It can only be applied to buildings or tenements which are necessary appur- , _ tenances of the principal subjects. I should not imagine that the having power : - to establish an institution of a public kind allows the parties in all cases to set ae about acquiring land for a variety of purposes—such as farming—which are not necessary for the purposes of the institution. But parochial business of a 7 parochial board is not the curative treatment of lunatics but the maintenance of paupers, including lunatic paupers. Therefore, I cannot find upon the facts set before us that it was otherwise than the duty of the assessor to value the © _ of the assessor should be maintained,