§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ MR. STEPHEN CAVE, in moving that the Bill be now read the second time, said, its principle object was to carry out the provisions of the 7th Geo. IV., c. 16, which provided for the conveyance of all the lands occupied by Chelsea Hospital to the Commissioners of the Hospital. It seemed that the hospital lands were, prior to a certain date, bought in the name of the Crown, and subsequently in that of the Commissioners, though all were paid for out of the Hospital funds. Inconvenience had 1617 from time to time arisen owing to the intersection and obliteration of boundaries, and now some measure of this kind had become absolutely necessary in order to enable a legal conveyance to be made to the Metropolitan Board of Works of land required for the Thames Embankment. It had been ascertained that the simplest plan would be to pass a short Act for this purpose. He had, therefore, introduced this Bill on behalf of the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital, and with the consent of the Treasury and the Commissioners of Woods and Forests. The right hon. Gentleman concluded by moving the second reading of the Bill.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Bill, read a second time and committed for To-morrow.