§ MR. MONTAGUI beg to ask the First Commissioner of Works if his 1263 attention has been directed to a proposal to deal with a piece of land, six and a-quarter acres in extent, called "The Bethnal Green Poor's Land," which is adjacent to the Bethnal Green Museum Garden, already under the control of the London County Council; whether he is aware that the ground is leased to the Bethnal House Asylum until Michaelmas next, when it proposed by some of the Trustees, constituting a small majority of their number, to have the land used for building purposes, under authority to be obtained from the Charity Commissioners; whether he is aware that the Trust Deed contains the following restriction:—
Provided always that none of the said Contributors or Trustees, their heirs or assigns, or any of them, do or shall at any time erect, or suffer to be erected, any building, upon the said enclosed premises, or any portion, part, or parcel thereof;and, whether he will direct that this open space shall not be used for building purposes, unless sanctioned by special Act of Parliament, as was the case when a portion of the land comprised in the same Trust was used for the erection of the Bethnal Green Asylum?
* THE FIRST COMMISSIONER OF WORKS (Mr. PLUNRET,) University of DublinI cannot give the hon. Member any information on this subject, of which I have no official knowledge, nor have I any control over the lands to which he refers.