(NO. 22,) REPORT OF AMENDMENTS. (Hansard, 20 March 1888)

§ EARL SPENCER

, in moving the following Amendment:— Where an agreement has been entered into, or shall hereafter be entered into, between the committee of visitors for any county appointed to provide an asylum for the pauper lunatics of the said county, and the committee of visitors appointed to provide an asylum for the pauper 1752 lunatics of any borough, for the lodging, maintenance, medicine, clothing, and care of the said county asylum for each pauper lunatic not wholly chargeable to the said borough, then all money payable or to be paid under the said agreement for all charges (except lodging) for the pauper lunatics so belonging to the said borough shall (notwithstanding any Act of Parliament to the contrary) be paid in the following way—namely, the Guardians of the Union shall pay to the treasurer of the said asylum for cacti pauper lunatic within the said borough (and not wholly chargeable thereto) the same sum as shall from time to time be charged for each pauper lunatic in the lunatic asylum belonging to the said county, and the difference between that sum and the total sum to be paid under the said agreement by the said Committee of Justices for the said borough for each borough pauper lunatic as before mentioned, shall be a charge upon the borough rates, and paid by the treasurer of the said borough to the treasurer of the said asylum, said, that he had put down the Amendment to meet difficulties which had arisen in the working of a county asylum of which he was one of the visitors, and possibly in other cases. In the case of the county asylum of Northampton, rural districts comprised in the Union of Northampton were obliged to pay a higher rate than they otherwise would, because the borough within the area was non-contributory. This Amendment would, he thought, meet the difficulty.