The reports of the Visiting Justices of the County Lunatic Asylum, at Hanwell, to the Epiphany Sessions, 1839 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell.
Date:
1842
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Credit: The reports of the Visiting Justices of the County Lunatic Asylum, at Hanwell, to the Epiphany Sessions, 1839 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6 selected one which, it appears to them, is decidedly preferable on many accounts, and as eligible as any that can be procured within this County. The Land alluded to belongs to the Earl of Jersey ; it consists of forty-four acres, forming nearly a square, and is situate near Han well Bridge ; it is distant eight miles and a quarter from the west end of Oxford-street, is hounded on the north by the high road leading to Uxbridge, and on the south by the Grand Junction Canal, with a south eastern prospect of Osterley Park, his Lordship’s seat; it is freehold, and free from tithes and land tax, and immediate possession may be had. The price required for the purchase is £275 per acre, besides a remuneration to the occupiers for their crops, dressings, and half-dressings. Your Committee, therefore, submit to the Court, as required by the tenor of the 6th Section of the Act of Parliament of the 55th Geo. 3rd, cap. 46, that they should be authorised (in case the Earl of Jersey and your Committee shall agree upon the price) to enter into a contract for the purchase of the said land belonging to his Lordship, at a sum not exceeding £12,500; and in the event of your Committee not being able to come to an arrangement with his Lordship, then that your Committee maybe at liberty to apply that sum to the purchase of such other site as they may deem to be eligible. Your Committee having in their former Report stated, that they had caused Advertisements for Plans, and estimates of the expense of the Building, to be published, and that they had thought it right and necessary to offer premiums of £200, £150, and £100, for the three best Plans, and which proceedings re¬ ceived the sanction of the last Quarter Sessions, they now beg to acquaint the Court that they, in consequence, received fifty- four sets of Plans, most (but not all) of which were accompanied