London Birds And London Insects And Other Sketches
London Birds And London Insects And Other Sketches
Thomas Digby Pigott
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Kilda from Without. 91 In 1869, when the first Sea-bird Preservation Bill was under discussion, the Duke of Northumberland rose in his place in the House of Lords to move the addition of a clause : " The operation of this Act shall not extend to the Island of St. Kilda. " The amendment was opposed by a second Duke, who, in advance of his times, argued that where there was no policeman to enforce an Act it was unnecessary to enact that it was not to be enforced. A third Duke replied (no legislat...or of humbler degree took part in the debate), and, the House very properly hesitating to give its sanction to the shocking morals propounded by the noble objector, the clause was accepted without a division, and has since been embodied in subsequent Acts. Parliament has been before now likened to the elephant's trunk which can pick up a pin or uproot a forest tree. But it would be difficult to find another instance in which the wants of a population of less than eighty* all told, have been provided for by special legislation.
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