This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...Act, 1902 (N o. 2), and shall apply to Scotland only. short title, and extent. MEMORANDUM. The object of this Bill is to carry out the recommendation of the Royal Commission on the Housing of the Working Classes in their Supplementary Report, viz.: --"' That legislation favour" able to the acquisition on equitable terms of the freehold " interest on the part of the leaseholder would conduce greatly to " the improvement of the dwellings of the people of this country" on the ground that "the prevailing system of building leases is " conducive to bad building, to deterioration of property towards " the close of the lease, and to a want of interest on the part of " the occupier in the house he inhabits," and that " the system of " building on leasehold land is a great cause of the many evils 'connected with overcrowding, unsanitary buildings, and excessive " rents." The Town Holdings Committee, in their final Report, recommend the local application of enfranchisement generally on the following grounds: --"After the statements laid before us by various witnesses, " we cannot doubt that the ownership by a working man of the " house he occupies is one of the strongest inducements to those " habits of lifewhich make him a good citizen and auseful member " of the community, and that this stimulus is more strongly " felt in the case of a man who has or can obtain the freehold than in that of a lessee for a term of years." Again, "With " regard, however, to improvements, which lessees holding under " existing leases may hereafter desire to make, a measure of " enfranchisement would place such...