An Act to facilitate the procuring of Sites for Workhouses in certain Cases.
WHEREAS it is provided by the Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of King William the Fourth, Chapter Sixty-nine, that any Ecclesiastical Corporation Sole may dispose of, by way of absolute Sale or in exchange for any Messuages, Lands, or other Hereditaments, any Lands or Buildings for the Purpose of the same being used as or converted into a Workhouse, or of being occupied with a Workhouse, or for any other Purpose relating to the Relief of the Poor which the Poor Law Commissioners might approv...