An Act to facilitate Grants of Land to be made near populous Places for the Use of regulated Recreation of Adults, and as Playgrounds for Children.
WHEREAS the Want of open public Grounds for the Resort and Recreation of Adults, and of Playgrounds for Children and Youth, is much felt in the Metropolis and other populous Places within this Realm, and by reason of the great and continuous Increase of the Population and Extension of Towns such Evil is seriously increasing, and it is desirable to provide a Remedy for the same: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiri...