§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ SIR JOSEPH BAILEYsaid, that he rose for the purpose of moving that the Bill be now read a second lime. There were at the present time about 10 Acts of Parliament which dealt with the question of salmon and freshwater fisheries. Of those, four Acts were the most important; but there was so much confusion that, at the present time, the law was very difficult to make out. Mr. Walpole, H.M. Inspector of Fisheries, had devoted the whole of his last Report to the question of consolidation of the law, his scheme had been considered by a Committee of Gentlemen well skilled in the subject, and it was upon the result of their recommendations that the present Bill was framed. So far as the Amendments were concerned, they were chiefly in technical details. Certain matters of surplusage were proposed to be eliminated, and the various Acts of Parliament were brought into harmony and simplified. He begged to move the second reading of the Bill.
§ Motion made, and Question, "That the Bill be now read a second time,"—(Sir Joseph Bailey,)—put, and agreed to.
§ Bill read a second time, and committed for Monday 21st June.