§ Clauses 52 to 63, inclusive, agreed to.
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On the Motion of Mr. W. E. FORSTER the following new clause was agreed to, and added to the Bill:—
(No Order in Council made under this Act regarding the establishment of the Union to be operative unless published on or before Aug. 1, 1882.)
The powers hereby conferred upon Her Majesty with reference to the first establishment of the Union shall not be exercised after the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, and no such Order in Council made in pursuance of this Act shall have any force or effect unless duly published in the "London Gazette" on or before that date.
§ SCHEDULE—OATH OF ALLEGIANCE, agreed to.
§ Then at ten minutes past Two o'clock on Wednesday afternoon—
§ Bill reported; as amended, to be considered To-morrow, and to be printed. [Bill 271.]