Note 122 — Chapter VII · a.d. 1831–1841.

To such a scheme the chief objection, in the words of the Hon. Thomas Frankland Lewis, appeared to be, that, “unless guarded against by some special provisions, the land will become subject to all the abuses which are so much complained of as to charity lands in general. It is altogether unlike a fund to be raised when and as it is wanted; there it is, and it must and will create objects on which to bestow itself, if it does not find them.” The proposition was consequently not carried into effect.