HC Deb 30 August 1848 vol 101 c668

PUBLIC BILLS.—2° Poor Law Auditors Proceedings Restriction.

Reported.—Exchequer Bills; West India Colonies and Mauritius; Savings Banks; Consolidated Fund.

3° and passed:—Post Horse Licenses, &c.; Lock-up Houses; Spirits (Dealers in); British Spirits Warehousing; Distilling from Sugar; Slave Trade (Muscat).

PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Mr. Beresford, from several Lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, for an Extension of the Benefit Societies Act to that Order.—By Mr. Cobden, from James Mills, of London, for Inquiry into his Case.—From the Rev. James Maher, Parish Priest of Graigue, in the County of Carlow, for an Alteration of the Poor Law.—By Colonel Sibthorp, from the Trustees and Managers of the Savings Bank at Grantham, in the County of Lincoln, against the Savings Banks Bill.—By Mr. Anderson, from several English Savings Banks, for Confining the Operation of the Savings Banks Bill to Ireland.